Nebraska. Its the birthplace of Malcom X, Kool-aid, Spam, Gerald Ford, and a few more. The largest city in Nebraska is Omaha (470,000 people) and the estimated population of people in Nebraska being around 1,850,000.
It's located in the very center of the United States of America. The central part of the U.S. is commonly known as the Great Plains- Nebraskas bordered by South Dakota, Iowa, and Missouri, Kansas, Wyoming, and Colorado.
Nebraska Facts:
•Nebraska averages almost 50 tornadoes a year; the most numbers of tornados was in 2004, with 110 tornados.
•Nebraska 911 system of emergency communications, now used nationwide, was first developed and used in Nebraska state capital; Lincoln Nebraska!
•Nebraska is the birthplace of the Reuben sandwich & Kool-Aid. Canned Spam (canned meat) is produced in Fremont NE
•Nebraska has more miles of river than any other state.
•The University of Nebraska in Lincoln NE weight room is the largest in the country. It covers 3/4 of an acre.
•The City of Kearney Nebraska is in the middle of the US and located exactly between Boston Mass and San Francisco California.
•Persons per square mile in Nebraska, 22.
•About 95 percent of the state's land is farmland -- that's a higher percentage than any other state.
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