Kansas City (cities)

For other uses, see Kansas City (cities) (disambiguation).

Kansas City refers to two cities and a metropolitan area situated at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. Kansas City, Missouri, the largest city in Missouri, anchors the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, which has a population of over two million. Kansas City, Kansas sits across the river from downtown Kansas City, Missouri and is the third largest city in Kansas.

Kansas City, Missouri

Main article: Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City Skyline from Liberty Memorial.

Kansas City, Missouri is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri encompassing parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is situated at the junction of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers (Kaw Point) and sits opposite Kansas City, Kansas. It is the largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. It is the most populous city in Missouri, the seventh largest city in the Midwest, and the 35th most populous city in the United States. As of 2008, the city had an estimated population of 480,129. It is home to both a Major League baseball team Kansas City Royals and NFL football team Kansas City Chiefs. Kansas City is tied with Boston as the city with the 3rd largest number of accredited medical schools, including the University of Kansas School of Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City, and Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, and the city is also home to both a dental a pharmacy school, and 17 4-year colleges and universities. The city's tap water was recently rated the cleanest among the 50 largest cities in the United States, containing no detectable impurities. The city is famous for 18th Street and Vine where jazz saxophone and composition legend, Charlie Parker (Charles "Yard Bird" Parker, Jr.), rehearsed in an empty lot. It is known in Missouri as the "world's barbecue capital." It hosts the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Kansas City Art Institute along with other museums and galleries housing notable collections. Kansas City has more fountains than any city in the world except Rome, Italy.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Main article: Kansas City Metropolitan Area

The Kansas City Metropolitan Area is a metropolitan area situated at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers (Kaw Point) and straddling the state border between Missouri and Kansas. The 15-county Kansas City Metropolitan Statistical Area, anchored by Kansas City, Missouri, is the 27th largest in the United States with an estimated population of 1,990,831 in the year 2008. The Combined Statistical Area also includes the Micropolitan Statistical Areas of Atchison, Kansas, and Warrensburg, Missouri, with estimated populations of 16,481 and 52,016, respectively.

The Combined Statistical Area of Kansas City had a population of 2,059,328 in the year 2008.

In 2007, Worldwide ERC and Primary Relocation recognized Kansas City 3rd overall as one of the "Best Cities for Relocating Families" in the United States.

Also in March 2007, Money Magazine rated Overland Park, Kansas, the 6th best city to live in the United States. Neighboring city Olathe, Kansas, was rated 13th and Lee's Summit, Missouri, 44th best. Kansas City is one of 2 metro areas to have 2 cities in the top 15. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the other.

Kansas City, Kansas

Main article: Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City, Kansas (KCK) is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Wyandotte County (WyCo); it is part of the "Unified Government" which also includes the cities of Bonner Springs and Edwardsville. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 146,867. Situated at the junction of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers (Kaw Point), the city is opposite Kansas City, Missouri, which anchors the metropolitan area, and is included in the bi-state Kansas City Metropolitan Area, of which it is a satellite city of the anchor city.

North Kansas City, Missouri

Main article: North Kansas City, Missouri

North Kansas City is a city in Clay County, Missouri, United States. The population was 4,714 as of the 2000 census but a large business/industrial base swells the daytime population by thousands more. Originally a northern suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, it is now nearly surrounded by Kansas City, Missouri, which extends far north of North Kansas City's northernmost border