Kansas City metropolitan area
The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddles the border between the U.S. states of Missouri and Kansas. Alongside Kansas City are other cities and suburbs with populations above 100,000: Overland Park, Kansas ; Kansas City,. Olathe, Kansas; and Independence,. Missouri.
About Kansas City metropolitan area in brief
The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddles the border between the U.S. states of Missouri and Kansas. It is the second-largest metropolitan area centered in Missouri and the largest metropolitan area in Kansas. Alongside Kansas City are other cities and suburbs with populations above 100,000: Overland Park, Kansas ; Kansas City,. Olathe, Kansas; and Independence,. Missouri. The Mid-America Regional Council serves as the Council of Governments and the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the area. The larger Kansas City Metropolitan Area as seen on a map can be visualized roughly as four quadrants: The southeast quadrant includes Kansas City and surrounding areas in Missouri, It includes the notorious Grandview Triangle. The northwest quadrant contains Wyandotte, and Leavenworth, counties in Kansas and parts of Platte County, Missouri, to the north and northeast. The northeast quadrant is locally referred to as \”north of the river\” or \”the Northland\”. The downtown area includes the Central Business District and its buildings, which form the city’s skyline. The downtown loop is formed by Interstates 670, 70 and 35. Within the downtown loop are many of the tall buildings and skyscrapers that make up the city’s skyline. South of the loop is the Crossroads District, Union Hill, Crown Center, Hospital Hill, Longfellow, Wendell Phillips, and Washington Wheatley. The Kansas City Convention Center, Municipal Auditorium, City Hall, Lyric Theater, Midland Theatre, Ilus Davis Park, and Barney Allis Plaza are within the central business district.
The Westside neighborhood and the West Bottoms, located at the bottom of the bluff adjacent to Kaw Point, are also within the downtownloop. The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is perched upon a high point immediately south of the downtown loops. The T-Mobile Center and the College Basketball Experience are within the Power & Light District, also inside the downtown Loop. The North Bottoms are within North Kansas City within the 18th & Vine District within the North Market District. Midtown City is entirely within Kansas City with a population of 40,355, just south of downtown, bounded by 31st Street and the state line on the west, West Gregory Boulevard on the south, and Troost Avenue on the east. The center of the core of the metropolitan area has many cultural attractions, shopping and entertainment attractions, including the Midtown Arena and HyVee Arena. The city’s downtown area is bounded by the Missouri River on the north, the Missouri-Kansas state line on thewest, 31st street on south and Woodland Avenue on east. The downtownloop is also bounded by a bend in the Missouri. River bend’s sharpest part forms a peninsula containing the Kansas City Downtown Airport. It is governed by a single unified government. Often the Wy andotte government is referred to simply as \”The Unified Government\”.
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