Still probably cousins
Stupid non-american question: Is any of these Kansas?
It's a common pub quiz factoid that Kansas City is not in Kansas
Kansas state is the rectangle on the right; Kansas City is one of those weird things which exists in both Kansas and Missouri next to each other, one was named after the other. Technically one is a small suburb of the other (150k ppl vs 2m ppl) - but for pub trivia, it does exist by name as an incorporated city in the state of Kansas.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Kansas
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri
The Missouri one is the bigger, more populated well known "KC" which is probably why it gets added to foreign pub trivia incorrectly (just a guess).
Additional fun fact, Kansas has in the past attempted to annex Kansas City, Missouri.
The metro area being split between MO and KS has also caused a race to the bottom for certain kinds of regulations and taxes because for many businesses the cost of moving between the two states was essentially moving from one side of State Line Rd to the other.
Such a strange metro area.
The one on the right is Kansas. Also of note: Kansas city is one city/Metropolitan area in two states. It's just unique in that it has the same name in both states
Several border cities in the Midwestern United States are this way.
From the map at https://kchistory.org/faq/why-there-kansas-city-both-kansas-and-missouri, it looks like ~90% of Kansas City is in Missouri:-) (I dunno about differential population density though)
And in the same state a good portion of the greater city area surrounding St. Louis lies in Illinois (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis)
The area around Chicago - TIL it is called "Chicagoland", can anyone comment how often that is used by people in the region? - likewise extends into multiple (more than just two) states!
Half of Kansas city is in Kansas
It's in both, but mostly Missouri. Sure there is a state line, but you wouldn't really notice if you weren't told.
Must really suck to be from a state so bad that the city named after it is worse than the Missouri part of it!
That's like losing a spelling bee where the tiebreaker is how to spell your child's name!
iirc Kansas allows abortions whereas Missouri does not? Missouri is also where Josh Harley is from. Kansas fluctuates back and forth between more conservative vs. liberal, whereas Missouri iirc is more solidly conservative.
I say this less to pick on any one place in particular, more to highlight how nuances can be pretty important to someone's quality of life having to live in it.
KC Missouri is the fun side. KC Kansas is for the folks who want to live in a somewhat urban setting, but still be WASP-y about it.
Yep, the JoCo bastards are on the Kansas side.
Maybe Johnson County, like Lenexa or Overland Park are waspy, but at least when I lived in the area, KCK itself was where you went if you wanted to develop a meth problem.
Granted it has been a decade or so since I lived there.
Most of Kansas city is in Missouri. It's more a joke to outsiders than people who actually live there.
Kansas City, MO founded before the state of Kansas is older and larger than Kansas City, KS. You can cross from one state to the other and not realize it.
There is literally a road running right up the middle called State Line Road, lol. In the right place you could probably drive in both states at the same time.
It's not as fun as it sounds.
Much like a lot of cities you wouldn't notice they were two different cities unless you knew there was a border there. My hometown of Omaha has a similar relationship with Council Bluffs on the Iowa side, plus a half dozen or so other small towns and cities that it more or less grew right up to the border of.
Yeah it doesn’t matter. I just say I live in the KC Metro so I don’t have to explain this. And when I’m talking to my family back home, it’s just Kansas City. Technically I don’t live in KC, but they don’t care.
I imagine it’s like being from NYC. If you’re from there you tell someone what borough but to everyone else it’s just NYC
Geographically backward. Kansas is west of Missouri. Source: lived in one. I don't recommend it.
Boomer memes
