Kansas City, abbreviated as "KCK", is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas, the county seat of Wyandotte County, and the third-largest city of the Kansas City metropolitan area.  As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 156,607.  The city formed as a streetcar suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, after which it is named. It is situated at Kaw Point, the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers. It is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified Government". Wyandotte County also includes the independent cities of Bonner Springs, Edwardsville, a portion of Lake Quivira, and the unincorporated area known as Loring.


Kansas City, Missouri, is the largest city in the state and one of two county seats. The other is Independence, which was historically known as "the Queen City". It lies on the Missouri River near its confluence with the Kansas River at Kaw Point. A tourist destination for over a century due to its position at America's heartland; it was hit hard by a tornado in 1957 and has since earned nicknames such as "The Most American Place on Earth" (in an advertisement for Hallmark Cards) or "America's Main Street.

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