Kansas City
Welcome to Kansas City
Kansas City is a vast land mass straddling two states, multiple counties and numerous smaller burgs and communities.
Kansas City, Missouri is a city covering parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties in Missouri, USA. Although it is the largest city in Jackson County, the suburb of Independence is the county seat. Situated at the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers, it lies along the boundary between Missouri and Kansas, and is directly opposite of Kansas City, KS
Kansas City, Kansas located in Wyandotte County, KS.In 1997, voters unanimously approved to consolidate the city and county governments into one jurisdiction called now The Unified Government of Wyandotte County. The county of Wyandotte – also affectionately known as “The Dot” – is also home to the cities of Bonner Springs and Edwardsville.
Johnson County, KS is also considered by most to be part of the KC Metro Area, however they are not a part of either the Kansas City, MO or the Kansas City, KS governments.
Often abbreviated as "KC" (to refer to the entire metropolitan area), or "KCMO" (to refer to only Kansas City, Missouri), Kansas City, Missouri is the center of the 26th largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States. In the Midwest, Kansas City is the 7th largest city (between Cleveland, Ohio and Omaha, Nebraska). As of the 2000 census, the city has a population of 441,545. Combined with Kansas City, Kansas, the population is 588,411, but the entire metropolitan area (in both Missouri and Kansas) is approximately 1,836,038 (estimated 2,015,282 in 2005). Although Kansas City has the highest population of any city in Missouri, St. Louis has a larger surrounding metropolitan area, with approximately 600,000 more people than Kansas City's metropolitan area.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The history of the Kansas City metropolitan area dates back to the 19th century. The Kansas City metropolitan area, straddling the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, was a good place to build several settlements. When the area was opened to Euro-American settlement, the area became the first battlefield in the conflict in the American Civil War. Kansas City, Missouri (KCMO), was incorporated in 1850 on the banks of the Missouri River.
