Kansas City

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City and administrative headquarters of Wyandotte County, northeast Kansas, USA, at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers; population (2000 est) 146,900. It is adjacent to Kansas City, Missouri. The city is an agricultural market with stockyards, meatpacking plants, grain elevators, and flour mills. Other industries include oil refining, auto assembly, and the manufacture of aircraft engines, furniture, clothing, steel and aluminium products, chemicals, soap, and farm machinery.

History
Kansas City was laid out in 1857 as Wyandotte and, after its amalgamation with neighbouring Armstrong and Armourdale, was incorporated as Kansas City in 1886.

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