Kansas City is a large, major Midwestern metropolitan area that spreads across the border of Missouri and Kansas and has a population of around 2 million. The central city of the metro area is Kansas City, Missouri, the largest city in Missouri, with a population of around 500,000. Across the state border is Kansas City, Kansas, often called "KCK" by locals, which has a population of 150,000. There are also suburbs on both sides of the border.
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