Capital: Lincoln.
Largest city: Omaha (on the Missouri River).
Joining the US: March 1, 1867, as the 37th state.
Location and landscape: Nebraska is largely situated on the Great Plains.
It borders South Dakota (north), Wyoming (west), Colorado (southwest), Kansas (south), and Iowa and Missouri via the Missouri River (east).
It is a typical agricultural state with abundant corn, beef, and grain.
The climate is continental: hot summers and cold winters.
Special features: Nebraska has a unicameral parliament, unique in the US: legislators are elected without party affiliation.
Known for agriculture, livestock farming, the University of Nebraska (strong in American football), and pioneer history.
There is also a well-known film from 2013 called Nebraska (by Alexander Payne, starring Bruce Dern), about a father-son road trip – but that is fiction, not a documentary about the state.
In short: Nebraska is a quiet, vast prairie state with a rich agricultural tradition and a pioneering past.
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