Kentucky Geography

Kentucky. It is part of the American geography, being one of the 50 states that make up the United States, with Frankfor being its capital.

Rivers and lakes

Kentucky has more than 140,000 km of river currents that provide one of the largest and most complex river systems in the United States. among which are:

• Lake Cumberland, the largest man-made lake east of the Mississippi by volume of water.
• Kentucky Lake the largest in area.

Kentucky is the only American state that has three rivers as a border with other states.

• The Mississippi River to the west
• The Ohio River to the north.
• The Big Sandy River to the east.

Its main internal channels include the Kentucky, Tennessee, Cumberland, Verde and Licking rivers, although it has only three major natural lakes, many man-made lakes are located in the state. Kentucky also has more navigable kilometers of water than any other state in the US., After Alaska.

Climate

According to Abbreviationfinder, Kentucky has a temperate climate, with hot summers and relatively cold winters. The temperature in the state does not vary much from one region to another.

In winter, the average temperatures of 2 ° C, while the center-north has an average temperature of -1 ° C. The lowest temperature recorded was -37 ° C, in Shelbyville, on January 28, 1963.

During the summer, the highest temperatures are recorded in the west, the average temperature in the summer, in the western tip of Kentucky, is 28 ° C. The highest temperature recorded in Kentucky was 46 ° C, in Greensburg, on July 28, 1930.

Races and ethnicities

The racial composition of the Kentucky population is made up of:

• Whites
• African American
• Asian
• American natives.

The median age of the population is 37.3 years, the five largest groups in Kentucky by descent are: Americans, who make up 20.9% of the population (the vast majority are of English and Scottish descent), Germans (12.7%) Irish (10.5%), English (9.7%) and African American (7.3%).

Religion

There is a wide religious culture, since a large number of denominations are registered in this state:

• Evangelical Churches Southern Baptist Convention.
• Independent Christian Churches.
• Church of Christ.
• Protestant Churches United Methodist Church.
• Disciples of Christ.
• Eastern churches.

Main cities

According to CountryAAH.com, Kentucky’s most populous cities, as well as most of the fastest growing counties, are concentrated in an area known as the Golden Triangle, in the Bluegrass region, in the north-central part of the state. The exceptions are Hardin, LaRue and Meade counties, located in the southwest of the state.

• The most populous city in Kentucky is Louisville.
• The second is Lexington, which it owned, with its metropolitan region.
• The seven counties located in the extreme north, in the region called Northern Kentucky, which is part of the metropolitan region of Cincinnati (a city located in the neighboring state of Ohio).

Education

Among the most relevant educational centers in Kentucky are:

• Kentucky Colleges
• Kentucky Business Schools
• Kentucky Art Schools
• Kentucky Community Colleges

Economy

The Economy is marked in several sectors:

• The primary sector we can find agriculture and livestock, the main agricultural products of the state are horses, cattle, tobacco, dairy products, pigs, soybeans and corn.
• The secondary sector is industrialized and mining, where the main products are transport equipment, chemical products, electrical equipment, machinery, food going in procession, tobacco products, coal, tourism.
• The third sector that marks the Kentucky economy, falls on community and personal services, tourism as the main one, financial services and real estate.

About 97% of the electricity generated in the state is produced by coal-fired thermoelectric plants, and the rest is produced mostly in natural gas thermoelectric plants.

Media

Newspapers

Currently in Kentucky about 160 newspapers are published, of which about 20 are daily.

• The Kentucky Gazette, was the first newspaper published in Kentucky, first published in Lexington in 1787.
• The Advertiser, Kentucky’s oldest newspaper still in circulation, was first published in 1818, in Louisville.

Radio stations

Kentucky owns about 200 radio stations, Kentucky’s first radio station was founded in 1922, in Louisville.

TV station

Currently, there are approximately 30 television stations, the first television station in the state was founded in 1948, also in Louisville.

Culture

It is generally considered within Kentucky culture, horse racing and gambling.

• The main horse racing day, the Kentucky Derby, is preceded by the two-week “Kentucky Derby Festival.”
• Louisville is also the host of the Kentucky State Fair, the “Kentucky Shakespeare Festival”, and the featured National Quartets Convention “Gospel of the South” festival.
• Owensboro, Kentucky’s third largest city, credits its self-styled nickname of the Barbecue Capital of the World by hosting the “International Bar-BQ Festival” each year.
• Bowling Green, Kentucky’s fifth-largest city and home to the only assembly plant in the world that makes the Chevrolet Corvette, opened the National Corvette Museum in 1994.
• The small town of Hodgenville, birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, receives the annual celebration of the “Day of Lincoln” and also held in February of 2008 the implementation of the “National Celebration of the Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln ” commemoration that will celebrate throughout the country for two years.