The state in the centre of the USA with the capital Topeka and the most populous city Wichita covers 213,000 km². It borders Nebraska to the north, Missouri to the east, Oklahoma to the south and Colorado to the west. Kansas was admitted to the Union in 1861 as the 34th state.

In the late 19th century, Kansas was an important wine-growing state. In the 1870s, Kansas and Missouri together formed the second largest wine-growing region in the USA. However, winegrowing came to an almost complete standstill as a result of a federal Prohibition Act (prohibition of the production and sale of alcoholic beverages, tightened by the "Bone-Dry" Act of 1917) in 1881 - and later the national Prohibition (1920-1933). It was not until the Kansas Farm Winery Act of 1985 that a slow revival began, leading to steady growth.
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