a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
"Arkansas was home to many brave soldiers who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War."
a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River
"The Arkansas winds its way from the Rockies, flowing through several states before joining the mighty Mississippi."
A state in the South Central region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Little Rock.
"Arkansas is a state in the South Central region of the United States where Little Rock serves as both the capital and the largest city."
From the name of the Arkansas River, from French Arcansas, a (plural) designation of either a Siouan tribe or the Quapaw. This designation is sometimes claimed to derive from a Quapaw word akakaze ("land of downriver people") or a Lakota/Dakota word akakaze ("people of the south wind"); more likely, it derives from a Siouan ethnonym cognate to Kansa (whence also the name of the state of Kansas).