Kansas City metropolitan area
The Kansas City metropolitan area surrounds the city of Kansas City, Missouri. It includes 15 counties in both Missouri and Kansas.[1] With a population of 2.34 million people, it is the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri behind Greater St. Louis.[1] However, the Kansas city metropolitan area is currently showing a 3.1 percent growth rate.[2] The St. Louis metropolitan area is only growing at a rate of .7 percent.[2]
Kansas City Metropolitan Area Media
Kansas City satellite map. The larger Missouri River runs west to east, joined at Kaw Point by the much smaller Kansas River approaching from the southwest. Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, is immediately southeast of their confluence and North Kansas City, Missouri, is to its northeast.
The center of Kansas City is roughly contained inside the downtown loop (shaded in red).
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - old facade
Chicago & Alton Railroad Depot, Independence, Missouri
Dillingham-Lewis House Museum, Blue Springs, Missouri
en:Fort Osage in March 2007 from west. The "factory" trading post is on the left. Photo by poster.
1859 Independence, Missouri Jail
Leila's Hair Museum, Independence, Missouri
Lone Jack Battlefield Museum, Lone Jack, Missouri
Midwest Genealogy Center 1
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Kansas City Population 2015". World Population Review. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Yael T. Abouhalkah (25 July 2015). "Kansas City metropolitan area thumps St. Louis in new population growth". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
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