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BLUEGRASS STATE AREA: 104,659 sq km (40,409 sq mi). POPULATION: 3,827,000. CAPITAL: Frankfort, pop. 27,200. ECONOMY: Industry: transportation equipment, chemical products, electric equipment, machinery, food processing, tobacco products, coal, tourism. Agriculture: horses, cattle, tobacco, dairy products, hogs, soybeans, corn. PCI: $17,810. Admission: 1792 as 15th state.
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Bluegrass and the music named for it are rooted here. In 1769 Daniel Boone entered the region through the Cumberland Gap. Today Kentucky ranks with Wyoming and West Virginia as a leading coal producer. A quarter of its farm receipts come from tobacco. The state distills about half the
nation’s whiskey—although 75 of the 120 counties are dry. Derby Day has drawn horse racing enthusiasts to Churchill Downs every year since 1875.
Text source: National Geographic Atlas of the World Revised Sixth Edition, 1995
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