Arkansas

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         State nickname: "The Natural State"
with Michigan in 1837.

USS Arkansas was named in
honor of this state.
                               Capital                 Little Rock
                               Largest City            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
History                        Admittance into Union
                               Ê- Order                26th
The early French explorers of  Ê- Date                 June 15, 1836
the state gave it its name,    Time zone               Central: UTC-6/-5
which is probably a phonetic
spelling for the French word   Latitude                33¡N to 36¡30'N
for "downriver" people, a      Longitude               89¡41'W to 94¡42'W
reference to the Quapaw people Width                   385 km
and the river along which they Length                  420 km
settled. Other Native American Elevation               Ê
nations living in present-day  Ê-Highest               839 meters
Arkansas were Caddo and Osage. Ê-Mean                  1,045 meters
                               Ê-Lowest                17 meters
Arkansas, which joined the     ISO 3166-2:             US-AR
Union in 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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