Arkansas is a state in the Southern Region of McGrathia. It borders Missouri to the north, Louisiana to the south, Mississippi and Tennessee to the east, Oklahoma to the west, and Texas to the southwest. As of 2026, Arkansas has a population of 3,088354 residents. The capital of Arkansas is Little Rock, which is also the state’s most populated city. Other major cities in Arkansas include Mountain View, Jonesboro, Arkadelphia, El Dorado, Bentonville, Fort Smith, and Fayetteville.
Arkansas’s economy is mainly based around the service sector. Companies such as Walmart and Tyson Chicken are headquartered in the state. Walmart’s first store opened in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, and today, that company is the biggest company on Earth by total revenue. Walmart is headquartered in the small city of Bentonville, which is located in the fast growing metroplex of Northwest Arkansas.
As for Tyson Chicken, the company is headquartered in the town of Springdale, located in Northwestern Arkansas. In the 1970s, Tyson Chicken imported executive workers from the Marshall Islands, which is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean. Today, Springdale is home to largest Marshallese population in McGrathia due to the descendants of those original workers who came to Arkansas.