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3About Emporia, KS
Emporia lies along Interstate 35 in east-central Kansas, making it an easy stop between Kansas City and Wichita. The city sits in the Flint Hills tallgrass prairie region with rolling limestone ridges. I-35 runs right through downtown, while US 50 crosses east-west and Highway 99 connects north to Manhattan. The National Teachers Hall of Fame operates in a restored 1917 Carnegie library downtown.
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Emporia, KS is in United States, at 38.403, -96.193 - about 16 km south-east of Americus, KS.
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The closest airport to Emporia, KS is Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, 149 km (about 1 h 43 min by car).