Wichita

Largest Kansas city

Wichita is the largest city in Kansas, situated on the Arkansas River in the south-central part of the state.

It developed as a center for cattle trade and later became a hub for aircraft manufacturing.

Wichita also refers to a Native American people originally from the southern Great Plains, or their Caddoan language.

city

Kansas

Central American plains state

  • MidwestNorth-central American region
  • aircraftAirborne transportation vehicle
  • BoeingAmerican aircraft manufacturer

Cessna · Beechcraft · aviation · Arkansas River · Old Town · McConnell · downtown · prairie · tornado alley

tribe

Plains Indians

Native Americans of grasslands

  • CaddoSouthern Plains indigenous nation
  • huntersPursuers of prey
  • farmersLand-cultivating occupation holders

Oklahoma · Texas · buffalo · confederation · Waco · reservation · tattooed · traded · seminomadic

film

Wyatt Earp

Old West lawman

1955 · frontier · cattle town · shootout · marshal

languages

endangered

At risk of extinction

revitalization · dialects

Categories
Opposites
kansas city hierarchy

WichitaTopeka

Kansas state capital

Kansas City · Lawrence · state capital

urban scale/cosmopolitanism

WichitaNew York City

America's largest city

Los Angeles · Tokyo · London · Paris · Chicago

geographic/cultural regionalism

WichitaMiami

Southeast Florida coastal city

San Francisco · Los Angeles · New York City · Seattle · Boston

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G