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Kentucky was the 15th state to be admitted into the Union on Friday, June 1, 1792.

Kentucky covers 40,411 square miles which has a population of 4,173,405 people. Black Mountain is Kentucky's highest point at 4,145 feet above sea level. Kentucky is the 37th largest state in terms of land area, and ranks 26th in population. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states established as a commonwealth state.

Kentucky is bounded to the west, northa and east by three rivers: Mississippi, Ohio, and Big Sandy Rivers. The southern boundaries are formed where Kentucky meets the states of Tennessee and Virginia.

More Facts about Kentucky

Kentucky capital - Frankfort

Border States - Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia. 

Kentucky is nicknamed "The Bluegrass State". Is the grass really blue, yes and no. The grass in the blue grass region is green, however, in the spring, bluegrass produces bluish-purple buds that, when seen in large fields, gives a rich blue cast to the grass.

As a slaveholding state with a considerable abolitionist population, Kentucky was caught in the middle during the Civil War, supplying both Union and Confederate forces with thousands of troops.

Kentucky most valuable monetary business is tobacco, the most prestigious are horses and whiskey. Thoroughbreds thrive in the Bluegrass Country while the world's mellowest bourbons are distilled at Bardstown, Clermont, Frankfort and Lotetto among others cities. Western Kentucky produces two-thirds of the nation's burley tobacco. Livestock, dairy, soybeans and corn are the leading sources of agricultural income.

Among the manufactured items produced in the state are motor vehicles, furniture, aluminum ware, brooms, apparel, lumber products, machinery, textiles, and iron and steel products. Kentucky also produces significant amounts of petroleum, natural gas, fluorspar, clay, and stone. However, coal accounts for 85% of the total mineral income.

Opportunities for boating, fishing and swimming are abundant on the 300 plus miles of undeveloped shoreline in Kentucky. Scuba diving, water skiing and fishing are popular on Cumberland and Dale Hollow lakes. Kentucky's state park system offers recreational activities which include golfing, camping, tennis and hiking. The largest spectator sport there is, what else but horse racing, with the Kentucky Derby each May drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors.

Louisville is famous for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, and the Bluegrass country around Lexington is the home of some of the world's finest race horses. Other attractions are Mannoth Cave, the George S. Patton, Jr., Military Museum at Fort Knox, and Old Fort Harrod State Park.

Kentucky's statewide sales tax is 6percent. Local options allow lodgings taxes up to 5 percent and restaurant taxes up to 3 percent.

Ashland - Bowling Green - Covington - Elizabethtown - Florence - Frankfort - Henderson - Hopkinsville - Jeffersontown - Lexington - Louisville - Owensboro - Paducah - Radcliff - Richmond

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