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Map of the United States with Kentucky highlighted. Kentucky, a state in the United States, has 418 active cities. [1] The two largest, Louisville and Lexington, are designated "first class" cities. A first class city would normally have a mayor-alderman government, but that does not apply to the merged governments in
List of counties in Kentucky. There are 120 counties in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, fourth among states (including Virginia's independent cities). [ 1] The original motivation for having so many counties was to ensure that residents in the days of poor roads and horseback ...
Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...
Kentucky was a heavily divided slave state during the American Civil War. Though the state had dueling Union and Confederate state governments, Kentucky was never an official component of the Confederacy. Kentucky was one of the Southern border states during the war, and it remained neutral within the Union. [ 39]
Frankfort, Kentucky. / 38.200°N 84.867°W / 38.200; -84.867. Frankfort is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kentucky and the seat of Franklin County. [ 5] It is a home rule-class city. [ 6] The population was 28,602 at the 2020 United States census. [ 7] Located along the Kentucky River, Frankfort is the principal city of the ...
An enlargeable map of the 120 counties of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.. The metropolitan areas of the Commonwealth of Kentucky include the urban statistical areas that are defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget and regions of urban population in which are defined by other organizations.
Louisville is the largest city in Kentucky, with 17.1% of the state's total population as of 2010; the balance's percentage was 13.8%. [79] Map of racial distribution in Louisville, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: ⬤ White ⬤ African American ⬤ Asian ⬤ Hispanic ⬤ Other
Pikeville ( / ˈpaɪkvəl /) is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Pike County, Kentucky, United States. [ 5] The population of Pikeville was 7,754 as of the 2020 U.S. Census . Pikeville serves as a regional economic, educational and entertainment hub for the surrounding areas of eastern Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia.