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Kansas City Essential Info

Overview

Kansas City is a city in Kansas, in the United States of America and suburb of Kansas City, Missouri

Description is available from Wikitravel under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. A list of contributors is available at the original article.

Basics

Best Time To Go

Mar-Oct

Current Time

Current Weather

50 °F

Partly Cloudy

Fun Facts

  1. In March 30, 2011, Google announced that Kansas City had been selected as the site of an experimental fiber-optic network that it would build at no cost to the city. The network became operational in 2012.
  2. In the 1890s, the city saw an explosive growth in population as a streetcar suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, from which it takes its name.
  3. Kansas City is the home to the General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant, which manufactures the Chevrolet Malibu and the Buick LaCrosse.
  4. The Rosedale Arch, dedicated to the men of Kansas City who served in World War I, is a small-scale replica of France's famous Arc de Triomphe.
  5. Most of the locals of Kansas City, support the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL and Kansas City Royals of the American League.The teams are based in nearby Kansas City, Missouri.

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