Phonetic rendering of 'Topeka', a city of about 125,000 in northeastern Kansas. The name itself comes from a Kansa-Osage phrase meaning 'a good place to dig potatoes'. Famous as the site of the landmark 1954 US Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (
布朗诉托皮卡教育局案), which struck down school segregation.
