USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Kentucky borders seven states, from the Midwest and the Southeast. West Virginia lies to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, Missouri to the west, Illinois to the northwest, and Indiana and Ohio to the north. Only Missouri and Tennessee, both of which border eight states, touch more.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is a popular belief that the Border States-Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia–comprised the Civil War’s middle ground, a region of moderation lying between the warring North and South.

Detailed explanation-3: -Located in the south central United States along the west side of the Appalachian Mountains, Kentucky ranks 37th in land size, with 39, 732 square miles (102, 907 square kilometers). The Commonwealth is bordered by seven states: Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri and Illinois.

Detailed explanation-4: -Yet Kentucky’s primary importance was strategic. Bordered by the Ohio River to the north and the Mississippi River to the west, it stood as a buffer between the states of the Old Northwest and Confederate Tennessee and provided the main line of defense for the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the context of the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states were slave states that did not secede from the Union. They were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, and after 1863, the new state of West Virginia.