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Kansas City
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English
+ metropolitan area
+, Kansas
+, Missouri
Pronunciation
en /ˌkænzəˈsɪti/ 1
en kansascity.ogg US
en [kæ̃ˈsɪɾi] locally
Proper noun
Kansas city
A large metropolitan area straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA. Kansas City is split into two separate cities:
en A <<city>> in <<s/Missouri>>, <<c/USA>> and one of the two <<county seat>>s of <<co/Jackson County>>.
en 2023-08-05 w:The New York Times How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Conquered the World Ben Sisario https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/arts/music/taylor-swift-eras-tour.html On the July day that she put out a music video featuring Taylor Lautner, an ex-boyfriend, the actor backflipped across the stage in Kansas City, Mo., and paid Swift effusive tribute — “not just for the singer you are,” Lautner said, “but for the human you are.” https://web.archive.org/web/20230819063536/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/arts/music/taylor-swift-eras-tour.html
en Jeff McMurray Trump’s transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using ‘road diets’ to slow speeders w:AP News https://apnews.com/article/road-diets-traffic-safety-transportation-department-trump-2486cac519fdc56348532717e43dc81d 2025-04-21 Road diets are now an almost automatic part of the process in Kansas City whenever a street is up for repaving. https://web.archive.org/web/20250426054537/https://apnews.com/article/road-diets-traffic-safety-transportation-department-trump-2486cac519fdc56348532717e43dc81d
en city/county seat co/Wyandotte County s/Kansas.
en ucomm co/Washington County s/Oregon.
The Kansas City Roos, the athletic program of the University of Missouri–Kansas City (whose academic brand is UMKC).
Synonyms
en KC, en KSC
Kansas en KCK, en KCKS
Missouri en KCMO, en KCM
Derived terms
en Kansas City barbecue sauce Kansas City shuffle
Translations
a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Arabic: ar كانساس سيتي Kānsās sītī
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 堪薩斯城 Kānsàsī chéng
Esperanto: eo Kansasurbo
French: fr Kansas City
Galician: gl Kansas City f, gl Cidade de Kansas f
Georgian: ka კანზას-სიტი
German: de Kansas City, de Kansas-Stadt n
Hebrew: he קנזס סיטי Kanzas Siti
Italian: it Kansas City, it Città del Kansas f
Japanese: ja カンザスシティ kanzasu shiti, ja カンザス市 kanzasushi
Korean: ko 캔자스시티
Lithuanian: lt Kanzas-Sitias
Polish: pl Kansas City
Portuguese: pt Kansas City f, pt Cidade do Kansas f
Russian: ru Ка́нзас-Сити
Serbo-Croatian: sh Kansas City
Spanish: es Kansas City f, es Ciudad de Kansas f
Thai: th แคนซัสซิตี
See also
Kansas City (disambiguation) en
Portuguese
Proper noun
f
pt city s/Missouri and s/Kansas c/United States Kansas City
pt Cidade do Kansas uncommon