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Kentucky Agate- but coal is the state mineral.
The official State bird is the Cardinal.
Kentucky's Nickname is The Bluegrass State.
No Alaska is the largest US State and more then 16 Kentuckys can fit into a state the size of Alaska. Texas which is the second largest state can hold more then six states the size of Kentucky. Don't feel bad for them because Kentucky has room for 26 Rhode Islands.
The Northern Cardinal was adopted as state bird of Kentucky in the year 1926.
The abbreviation for the US State of Kentucky is Ky.
Kentucky's state motto is "United We Stand, Divided We Fall".
No state has their own anthem, but there are songs that are thought of as national anthems, because they are sung in that state so much.
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Kentuckys most densely populated county is Jefferson.It has more than twice the populous as the second largest county Fayette.