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Kansas City

Kansas City is a major Midwestern metropolitan area that spreads across the border of Missouri and Kansas. It is a city that tends to hide itself from tourists. Wikivoyage

Population 508,090 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in United States

Visas and entry What your passport needs for United States

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Kansas City. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Big 12 Conference basketball tournaments

    March

    The Big 12 Conference, one of the so-called "Power Four" conferences in college football but also with a rich tradition in both men's and women's basketball, holds its annual conference tournaments in KCMO every March.

  2. Bentley Film Festival

    December

    The Bentley Film Festival, also known as The Bentley's, is a film festival held annually on December 3 in Kansas City, Missouri. The festival encourages short, uncut films to be shown as original productions.

    Wikipedia

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Kansas City); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

All 23 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

Train stations: Kansas City Union Station 1.6 km

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