什麼是阿肯色

美國中南部一州（2000年人口約2,673,400）。全州的最高點是馬加津山，海拔839公尺。最早來此定居的居民是大約西元500年住在密西西比河沿岸懸崖峭壁上的印第安人，築墩文化也在沿河地區留下墳墩。西班牙和法國的拓荒者在16～17世紀橫跨了這整個地區；1686年第一批歐洲人在阿肯色波斯特永久居住。作爲美國取得的路易斯安那購地的一部分，阿肯色準州於1819年成立；1828年該州的現有邊界畫定完成。1836年成爲美國第二十五個州。美國南北戰爭期間，阿肯色州於1861年脫離聯邦，加入美利堅邦聯，後於1868年獲准重新加入聯邦。重建時期之後，實施嚴格的種族隔離政策，一直延續至1957年法院下令廢除學校的種族歧視政策。該州過去以農業爲主，現在經濟還包括採礦業和製造業等工業，旅遊業也因溫泉國家公園的礦泉和奧沙克山脈的景點而興盛。首府小巖城（Little Rock）。面積53,187平方哩（137,754平方公里）。

Arkansas

State (pop., 1997: 2,523,000), southern central U.S. It covers 53,187 sq mi (137,754 sq km). Its capital is Little Rock, while its highest point is Magazine Mtn., at 2,753 ft (839 m). The earliest inhabitants were Indian bluff dwellers along the Mississippi River c. AD 500. Mound-building cultures later left sepulchral mounds along the river. Spanish and French explorers traversed the region in the 16th-17th century; the first permanent European settlement was founded at Arkansas Post in 1686. Acquired by the U.S. as part of the Louisiana Purchase, Arkansas Territory was formed in 1819; the state's current boundaries were fixed in 1828. Arkansas became the 25th state in 1836. It seceded in 1861 to join the Confederacy in the American Civil War; it was readmitted to the Union in 1868. Following Reconstruction, a rigid policy of segregation lasted until 1957, when court-ordered desegregation of the schools was implemented. Once dominated by agriculture, the state's economy now also includes mining and manufacturing. Tourism is promoted especially by the mineral springs at Hot Springs National Park and resorts in the Ozark Mtns.