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Topeka

capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and seat of Shawnee County
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Topeka is an organization that was founded in 1854.

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Shawnee County[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Kansas River[5]
  • Head of government: Spencer Duncan[6]
  • Instance of: big city[7], county seat[8]
  • Postal code: 66601[9], 66603[10], 66604[11], 66605[12], 66606[13], 66607[14], 66608[15], 66609[16], 66610[17], 66611[18], 66612[19], 66614[20], 66615[21], 66616[22]
  • Commons category: Topeka, Kansas[23]
  • Located in time zone: Central Time Zone[24]
  • Local dialing code: 785[25]
  • Inception: 1854[26]
  • Official website: http://www.topeka.org/[27]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Topeka, Kansas[28]
  • Commons gallery: Topeka, Kansas[29]
  • Population: 127,473[30], 126,587[31]
  • Office held by head of government: Mayor of Topeka, Kansas[32]
  • Described by source: The Nuttall Encyclopædia[33], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[34], The American Cyclopædia[35], Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[36], The New Student's Reference Work[37], New International Encyclopedia[38]
  • Capital of: Kansas[39], Shawnee County[40]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Topeka, Kansas[41]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Topeka, Kansas[42]
  • Number of households: 54,092[43]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Topeka include Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway[44], a railway company[45], in United States[46], founded in 1895[47], headquartered in Chicago[48]; Topeka Regional Airport[49], an airport[50], in United States[51]; and Topeka[52], a town in the United States[53], in United States[54].

Why It Matters

Topeka has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[55] Topeka is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[56]

Entities named for Topeka include Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway[44], a railway company[45], in United States[46], founded in 1895[47], headquartered in Chicago[48]; Topeka Regional Airport[49], an airport[50], in United States[51]; and Topeka[52], a town in the United States[53], in United States[54].

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . topeka.org. topeka.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [49] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [52] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [50] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [51] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [53] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [54] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [55] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [56] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Icpsr geographic names thesaurus id → 30994
    Has characteristic → state or insular area capital of the United States, county seat
    History of topic → timeline of Topeka history
    Different from → Topeka, Google
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