Arkansas USA

The US State of Arkansas

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Arkansas is a southern state in the United States. Arkansas is bordered by Tennessee and Mississippi, across the Mississippi River (E), Louisiana (S), Texas and Oklahoma (W) and Missouri (N).

The U.S. postal abbreviation for Arkansas is AR and its Associated Press abbreviation is Ark.

Arkansas was admitted as the 25th state of the United States in 1836.

The state capital and largest city is Little Rock

Arkansas is in the Central Time Zone in the United States of America (USA).  US Central Standard Time (CST) is 6 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT-6).