39°06N 94°35W, pop (2000e) 441 500. River port city in Jackson Co, W Missouri, USA; on the S bank of the Missouri R, adjacent to its sister city, Kansas City, KS, with which it shares many functions; town of Kansas established, 1838; city status, 1853; present name, 1889; airport; railway; university (1929); automobiles and parts, metal products, electronics, processed foods, machinery, oil refineries, railway shops; large stockyards and grain elevators; the nation's leading winter-wheat market; jazz centre in the 1930s40s; professional teams (representing the two Kansas Cities), Royals (baseball), Chiefs (football); Nelson Art Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts.
Kansas City may refer to:
in geography:
Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City Metropolitan Area, straddling the border of Kansas and Missouriin arts & leisure:
"Kansas City" (song) (disambiguation page) Kansas City (1996 film), by Robert Altman Kansas City, another name for the poker game Deuce-to-seven lowOther uses
Kansas City standard, a digital data storage standard for audio cassettes North Kansas City, Missouri| This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. |
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