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Wichita, Kansas
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Wichita is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County, with a population of about 397,500 at the 2020 census and a metropolitan area of roughly 648,000, located in south-central Kansas along the Arkansas River. Long nicknamed the Air Capital of the World, Wichita has been a major center of general-aviation aircraft manufacturing since the early twentieth century, home to companies including Cessna, Beechcraft and Learjet.
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