Kansas City, Missouri (usa)

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri ranks 137th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Wrocław, Sofia, and Newark, New Jersey. Memorable people born in Kansas City, Missouri include Dianne Wiest, Robert Altman, and Jean Harlow. Memorable people who died in Kansas City, Missouri include Harry S. Truman, Jim Bridger, and Fats Waller. Kansas City, Missouri has been the birth place of many actors, and writers and the death place of many musicians, and painters. Kansas City, Missouri is located in United States.

Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, and other portions spill into Clay, Platte, and Cass counties. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line and has a population of 2,392,035. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090, making it the 37th most-populous city in the United States, as well as the sixth-most populous city in the Midwest. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a port on the Missouri River at its confluence with the Kansas River from the west. On June 1, 1850, the town of Kansas was incorporated; shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued, and the name Kansas City was assigned to distinguish them soon after. Read more on Wikipedia