Its flag looks like a cross breed of American flag and Confederate flag with a sideways turned blue parallelogram with stars inside of it, bordered by red. Arkansas is an Algonquin name and the state is bordered by Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma. It runs along the Mississippi river, which also serves as a border.

On this day June 15^th, in 1836, Arkansas is admitted as the 25^th state of the U.S. The etymology of the word is means something to the extent of “land of downriver people.” Arkansas is made up of many rivers, lakes, forests, and has soil perfect for agriculture.

Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto was the first European to walk on the lands of future Arkansas. Upon it being admitted to the union, Arkansas became the 13^th slave state.  When the civil war broke out, 25% of its population was African-American slaves – the total population being about 450,000 in 1860. Today its economy is primarily predicated upon agriculture. Its largest city is Little Rock with almost 200,000 people, and as of 2011 the population for the state was 2,937,979.