Kansas City

The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its fourteen counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (nine counties) and Kansas (five counties). The 8,472 square miles (21,940 km2) 2024 estimated census calculated a population of more than 2.2 million people, it is the second-largest metropolitan area centered in Missouri (after Greater St. Louis) and is the largest metropolitan area in Kansas, though Wichita is the largest metropolitan area centered in Kansas. Alongside Kansas City, Missouri, these are the suburbs with populations above 100,000: Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; Olathe, Kansas; Independence, Missouri; and Lee’s Summit, Missouri.

Chameleons at recordBar, Kansas City MO (04 November 2024)

Chameleons keep their promises-- The recently-returned-to-action Manchester UK post-punk band (not the lizard) made good on their intent to return to downtown Kansas City ar recordBar, after a planned June appearance had to be scuttled day-of, after their van broke down en route from Denver, somewhere on the plains of Western Kansas.