Welcome to Kansas Geography. Take a trip to the valleys and rivers, the hills and plains in Kansas as read the geography of Kansas. Kansas is encircled by Missouri on the east, Nebraska on the north, Colorado on the west and Oklahoma on the south. The State of Kansas is divided into 105 counties with 628 cities. The geographical location of Kansas is equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

In the Smith County near Lebanon is situated the geographic center of the 48 neighboring states. The Kansas geographic center is located in Barton County. Kansas is one among the six states that is located on the Frontier Strip and is also one of the several within Tornado Alley. Tornado Alley is the colloquial term that is most frequently used in reference to the area in U.S. where tornadoes are quite frequent.

Now let’s know about the topography of Kansas State. The two-thirds western part of Kansas, located in America’s great central plain, generally has a flat or undulating surface and on a large scale it is apparently almost perfectly flat. But, the eastern third of the state is forested and hillier, displaying a gradual slope up from east to west.

The altitude of this region ranges from 684 feet above the sea level along the Verdigris River at Coffeyville, Montgomery County; to 4039 feet at Mt. Sunflower, one half mile from the border of Colorado, Wallace County. The Missouri River forms about 120 km of Kansas’s northeastern boundary. The Kansas River or Kaw is formed by the juncture of the Smoky Hill and Republican Rivers, and joins the Missouri at Kansas City. This river runs for 274 km across Kansas’s northeastern part.

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