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Topeka
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capital of the state of Kansas, United States; county seat of Shawnee County
Topeka is the capital city of Kansas and serves as the county seat of Shawnee County. As the state capital, it is the center of Kansas's state government and an important administrative hub for the region.
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- Instance of
- county seat
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Shawnee County
- Population
- 126587
- Area
- 159.195366
- Elevation
- 288
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Body of water
- Kansas River
- Capital of
- Shawnee County
- Official website
- www.topeka.org
- Image
- Topeka, Kansas.JPG
- Households
- 54092
- Dialing code
- 785
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- postal code
- 66699
- Commons category
- Topeka, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Topeka, Kansas
- inception
- 1854-00-00
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Topeka, Kansas
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Topeka, Kansas
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- Topeka, Kansas
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- name in native language
- Topeka
- native label
- Topeka
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- water as percent of area
- 2.1119
- different from
- per capita income
- 28420
- hashtag
- Topeka
- has characteristic
- county seat
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Encyclopedic overview
Topeka (/tə.ˈpiː.kə/, tə-PEE-kə) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeastern Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 126,587.
The city, laid out in 1854, was one of the Free-State towns founded by Eastern antislavery men immediately after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Bill. In 1857, Topeka was chartered as a city.
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