Kansas City metropolitan area
The Kansas City covers 15 counties in the U.S. states of Missouri and Kansas and has about 2 million inhabitants. Center of the metropolitan region is the city of Kansas City, Missouri, and its sister city in Kansas.
The region is to Greater St. Louis is the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the largest in Kansas.
According to CNNMoney.com, the location in the Region City Overland Park in 2010 occupied the seventh place in the list of the most livable cities in the United States.
Population
In 2000, the region had 1,836,038 inhabitants; and the population rose up to the census in 2010 to 2,035,934 in.
Counties
At the Kansas City 15 counties are counted:
Municipalities
Core city
- Kansas City (Missouri )
Cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants
- Independence
- Kansas City (Kansas )
- Olathe
- Overland Park
Municipalities with 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants
- Blue Springs
- Belton
- Excelsior Springs
- Gardner
- Gladstone
- Grandview
- Lansing
- Leawood
- Leavenworth
- Lee 's Summit
- Lenexa
- Liberty
- Merriam
- Ottawa
- Prairie Village
- Raymore
- Raytown
- Shawnee
Municipalities under 10,000 population
- Avondale
- Basehor
- Birmingham
- Bonner Springs
- Buckner
- Claycomo
- Countryside
- De Soto
- Edgerton
- Edwardsville
- Fairway
- Garden City
- Glenaire
- Grain Valley
- Greenwood
- Harrisonville
- Houston Lake
- Kearney
- Lake Lotawana
- Lake Quivira
- Lake Tapawingo
- Lake Waukomis
- Lake Winnebago
- Lawson
- Levasy
- Lexington
- Linwood
- Lone Jack
- Louisburg
- Mission
- Mission Hills
- Mission Woods
- Missouri City
- Napoleon
- North Kansas City
- Northmoor
- Oak Grove
- Oaks
- Oakview
- Oakwood Park
- Odessa
- Orrick
- Paola
- Parksville
- Peculiar
- Platte City
- Platte Woods
- Pleasant Valley
- Pleasant Hill
- Randolph
- Richmond
- River Bend
- Riverside
- Roeland Park
- Sibley
- Smithville
- Spring Hill
- Sugar Creek
- Tonganoxie
- Unity Village
- Weatherby Lake
- Wellington
- Westwood
- Westwood Hills