978-1-4222-3326-9

59

Lower Plains: Kansas, Nebraska

largest livestock market and meat- packing industry in the nation. Today, Omaha is a major business hub, boast- ing several companies on Fortune magazine’s list of America’s top 500 corporations. Included on that list is Berkshire Hathaway, the multination- al investment firm run by billionaire Warren Buffett, an Omaha native. Roughly 55 miles southwest of Omaha is Lincoln , Nebraska’s capital

Nebraska has the largest proportion of Czech Americans in the nation. Many of them live in the southeastern town of Wilber, nicknamed the “Czech Capital of the U.S.A.” Major Cities With a 2010 population of 408,958, Omaha is Nebraska’s biggest city. Until the 1990s, the city was home to the Union Stockyards, once the

Aerial view of Omaha, the state’s largest city.