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KANIZSA KANIZSA, free town, Hungary, situated 136 miles S. W. of Budapest. The citizens are mostly Magyars and in religion the Roman Catholic church prevails. A Piarist and Franciscan cloister are located here. The town has a considerable trade in live stock and agricultural products. Pop. about 27,500.  KANKAKEE, a city and county-seat of Kankakee co., Ill.; on the Kankakee river, and the Illinois Central and other railroads; 56 miles S. W. of Chicago. It is an important railroad junction and trade center, is principally engaged in the manufacture of horseshoe nails, has an excellent system of waterworks supplied from the river, and contains the Illinois Eastern Insane Hospital, Emergency Hospital, conservatory of music, public library, and National and private banks. The tax valuation is about $6,500,000. Pop. (1910) 13,986; (1920) 16,753.  

 KAN-KIANG, a river of China, which traverses the province Kiang-si from S. to N., and after a course of 350 miles, flows into the Yang-tse-Kiang.  KANO, capital of a province of the same name (pop. about 2,250,000) in the Negro State of Sokoto, Central Africa (now part of British Northern Nigeria) in the middle of the country, about 250 miles S. S. E. of the city of Sokoto. Principal industry weaving and dyeing of cotton cloths. Pop. is about 100,000.  KANSAS, a State in the North Central Division of the North American Union; bounded by Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Colorado; land-surface area, 81,700 square miles; admitted to the Union Jan. 29, 1861; number of counties, 105; pop. (1890) 1,427,090; (1900) 1,470,496; (1910) 1,690,949; (1920) 1,769,257; capital, Topeka.

Topography.—The State, lying in the great central plain of the United States, has a generally flat or undulating surface. Its altitude above the sea ranges from 750 feet at the mouth of the Kansas river to 4,000 feet on the W. line of the State. The rivers flow through bottomlands, varying from ¼ to 6 miles in width, and bounded by bluffs, rising 50 to 300 feet. The Missouri river forms nearly 75 miles of the State's N. E. boundary. The Kansas river, formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers, joins the Missouri at Kansas City, after a course of 150 miles across the State. The Arkansas, rising in Colorado, flows with a tortuous course, for nearly 500 miles, across three-fourths of the State. It forms, with its tributaries, the Little Arkansas, Walnut, Cow Creek, Cimarron, Verdigris, and Neosho, the S. drainage system of the State. Other important rivers are the Saline and Solomon, tributaries of the Smoky Hill; the Big Blue, Delaware, and Wakarusa, which flow into the Kansas; and the Osage, a tributary of the Missouri.

Geology.—The rock system of Kansas is exceedingly simple. Over almost the