Kansas City (Missouri)

See also: Kansas City

Kansas City is a city of the Comté of Clay, Case, of Jackson, and Platte, in the American State of the Missouri. Located at the confluence of the rivers Missouri and Kansas, it is located at the border of the States of Missouri and Kansas, and is just opposite Kansas City, Kansas.

History

Geography

The city is made up, like many others cities of the United States, of a district business, surrounded by broad suburban suburbs. However the Missouri and the border between the State of the Missouri and the Kansas slowed down the urban development metropolis on Western bank.

Climate

The city profits from a continental Climat, with great differences in temperatures between the winter and the summer. The winters are rather soft, with can of snowfalls, when at the summers, the currents coming from the Gulf of Mexico bring much heat and moisture. the intermediate Seasons are punctuated by many storms. Located in the Tornado Alley, the city is regularly the theater of tornadoes.

Demography

Often called KCMO, Kansas City is the center of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second agglomeration of Missouri. According to the Office of the census of the United States (2000), the city has a population of: 441545 inhabitants, which makes some largest of Missouri, but in 2005, it would count: 444965 inhabitants. Combined with Kansas City (Kansas), population reached: 588411 inhabitants, but the totality of the urban area (in the two States) account: 2015282 inhabitants.

Parks

The Swope park is the largest park of the city, with a surface of 713 hectares, that is to say more of the double of the surface of Central Park. In addition to the green areas, it includes also a zoo, two course of golfs, a theater of sport, a ground of baseball, a football field, a swimming pool and a ground of Frisbee.

In addition, almost all the residential streets of the city were planted of elms, until the Graphiose attack them. A program of replacement was engaged, in favor of the copalme of America.

Attractions

Teaching

Culture

An important museum of Antique art, traditional and contemporary, the Nelson-Atkins Museum off Art, is located on the commune of Kansas City. He is regarded as one of most important of the United States.

Transport

Airports

Kansas City has several airports, of which the Kansas City International Airport, principal airport of the city, in direct connection with the main cities of the continent of North America.

Roads & highways

The highway network of the city is very dense. The city is with the crossing of several highways of which the I-70 connecting the I-15 to Baltimore

Public transport

The city has a grid system jointly rather little developed. The program aiming to improve it proposes to employ:

  • the max (Subway Area Express train), a system of fast bus installed in 2005, connecting the center town to the Southern districts.

  • the Light subway, connecting the Swope park to Kansas City International Airport whose project was accepted in 2006.
  • the Trolley bus, already existing between 1870 and 1957, and whose rebuilding was proposed in 2007, and whose network envisages to include with terms the light subway.

Twin cities

Sports

Famous inhabitants (" Kansas Citians")

Below a partial list people associated with Kansas City for various reasons, including the birth:

External bonds

  • City off Kansas City
  • Kansas City' S 150th anniversary timeline
  • Images off Kansas City from the Library off Congress website
  • History Database from the Kansas City Public library
  • Official Travel and Tourism website
  • Kansas City Chamber of commerce
  • Downtown Council
  • Nightlife & Restaurants

Simple: Kansas City, Missouri

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