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Arkansas is a southern state in the
southern United States. The 2000
census was 2,673,400.

Arkansas was a slave state that was
admitted as a pair with Michigan in    State nickname: "The Natural State"
1837.

USS Arkansas was named in honor of
this state.                                     Other U.S. States
                                     Capital              Little Rock
                                     Area                 Ranked 29th
                                     Ê- Total             137,732 km2
                                     Ê- Land              134,856 km2
                                     Ê- Water             2,876 km2
                                     Ê- % water           2.09%

                                     Population           Ranked 33rd
                                     Ê- Total (2000)      2,673,400
                                     Ê- Density           19.8/km2
                                     Admittance into
                                     Union                26th
                                     Ê- Order
                                     Ê- Date              June 15, 1836
History
                                     Time zone            Central: UTC-6/-5

The early French explorers of the    Latitude             33¡N to 36¡30'N
state gave it its name, which is     Longitude            89¡41'W to
probably a phonetic spelling for the                      94¡42'W
French word for "downriver" people,  Width                385 km
a reference to the Quapaw people and Length               420 km
the river along which they settled.  Elevation            Ê
Other Native American nations living Ê-Highest            839 meters
in present-day Arkansas were Caddo   Ê-Mean               1,045 meters
and Osage.                           Ê-Lowest             17 meters
Arkansas, which joined the Union in  ISO 3166-2:          US-AR
1836, was the 25th state. Arkansas
seceded from the Union on May 6, 1861 during the American Civil War and was
later readmitted after Reconstruction.

The state is the only one with an official pronunciation. The traditional
form "arkanSAW" was made official by the state legislature in 1881.

Law and Government

The current governor of Arkansas is Mike Huckabee, a Republican. Huckabee,
who had been elected lieutenant governor in a 1993 special election,
ascended to the governor's office when Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat,
was convicted of felony mail fraud as part of the Whitewater Scandal. This
led to a state "Constitutional crisis" when Tucker refused to give up the
governor's office for a short period of time, because the Arkansas
Constitution does not allow a convicted felon to be governor of the state.
Tucker had been lieutenant governor under Bill Clinton and had become
governor as a result of Clinton's election to the presidency.

In Arkansas, the lieutenant governor is elected separately from the governor
and thus can be from a different political party.

Geography

The capital of Arkansas is Little Rock. Arkansas is the only state in the US
where diamonds are found naturally.

The eastern Arkansas border is the Mississippi River. Arkansas shares its
southern border with Louisiana, its northern border with Missouri and
Tennessee, and its western border with Texas and Oklahoma. Arkansas is a
beautiful land of mountains and valleys, thick forests and fertile plains.
The Ozark and Ouachita mountain ranges in northern and western Arkansas are
known as the Highlands; the southern and eastern parts of Arkansas are
called the Lowlands.

Economy

The state's total gross state product for 1999 was $64 billion placing
Arkansas 33rd in the nation. Its Per Capita Personal Income for 2000 was
$22,257, 47th in the nation. The state's argiculture outputs are poultry and
eggs, soybeans, sorghum, cattle, cotton, rice, hogs, and milk. Its
industrial outputs are food processing, electric equipment, fabricated metal
products, machinery, paper products, bromine, and vanadium.

Demographics

As of 2000, the state's population was 2,673,400.

Important Cities and Towns

    * Conway          * Little Rock
    * El Dorado       * Pine Bluff
    * Fayetteville    * Rogers
    * Fort Smith      * Russellville
    * Hot Springs     * Springdale
    * Jonesboro       * Texarkana

Education

Colleges and Universities

   * Arkansas Baptist College
   * Arkansas State University
   * Arkansas Tech University
   * Central Baptist College
   * Harding University
   * Henderson State University
   * Hendrix College
   * John Brown University
   * Lyon College
   * Ouachita Baptist University
   * Philander Smith College
   * Southern Arkansas University
   * University of Arkansas System
        o University of Arkansas
        o University of Arkansas at Little Rock
        o University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
        o University of Arkansas at Monticello
        o University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
   * University of Central Arkansas
   * University of the Ozarks
   * Williams Baptist College

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