什么是阿肯色

美国中南部一州（2000年人口约2,673,400）。全州的最高点是马加津山，海拔839公尺。最早来此定居的居民是大约西元500年住在密西西比河沿岸悬崖峭壁上的印第安人，筑墩文化也在沿河地区留下坟墩。西班牙和法国的拓荒者在16～17世纪横跨了这整个地区；1686年第一批欧洲人在阿肯色波斯特永久居住。作为美国取得的路易斯安那购地的一部分，阿肯色准州於1819年成立；1828年该州的现有边界画定完成。1836年成为美国第二十五个州。美国南北战争期间，阿肯色州於1861年脱离联邦，加入美利坚邦联，後於1868年获准重新加入联邦。重建时期之後，实施严格的种族隔离政策，一直延续至1957年法院下令废除学校的种族歧视政策。该州过去以农业为主，现在经济还包括采矿业和制造业等工业，旅游业也因温泉国家公园的矿泉和奥沙克山脉的景点而兴盛。首府小岩城（Little Rock）。面积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.