The brief introduction to Kansas City
The brief introduction to Kansas City
Kansas City is an important city in the U.S. Midwest, is one of America's agricultural heartland, Missouri (39.02 degrees north latitude, longitude 94.33 degrees). Culture, education is well developed. Located in the United States the most fertile land in four states (Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa) of the center, and Kansas City, Kansas, and east of the big cities collectively Kansas City. As the big Kansas City headquarters from the geographic center of the United States (latitude 39 degrees 50 minutes west longitude 98 degrees 35 minutes) recently, so people called it "America's Heart."
Population, area, area
Population of 443,400 (1999, ranked 25th with total area of 317 square miles, is the 8th largest city nationwide. Large Kansas City jurisdiction, including 136 cities in 11 counties, which has jurisdiction over Kansas City, Missouri Jackson, general LVL 4 Clay and Cass counties and 13 districts, all or part of the area.
Geography
Second largest river in the United States from northwest to southeast Missouri through Kansas, and then fold the east, north through the city, to the eastern border of Missouri, St. Louis, with the Mississippi River after the south into the Gulf of Mexico.
Traffic
The early nineteenth century, American expansion from east to west, is from the Ohio River into the Mississippi River, up the river and on, the Missouri River to Kansas City, where landing, transfer to cattle or horse-drawn caravans, continue to work towards the west. Kansas City is known as the "shore" and "place on the road to" develop the west is the "springboard." Today, Kansas City is a major transportation port. Kansas City International Airport a day ups and downs of nearly 400 aircraft, rail transportation system operating more than 300 trains a day, on the Missouri River, 11 sea freight route through Kansas City. Kansas City is the nation's interstate highway through there are three of the five cities.
Economic
Kansas City is a large initial point of the French fur trade, founded in 1821, after the opening of the railway development of agricultural products distribution center. Six hundred miles around it, within 78% of the corn produced in America, 95% of the sorghum, 84 percent of the soybeans. Here is the world-famous wheat-producing areas, a large number of distribution of wheat here, trading and processing. Kansas City Grain Exchange, red winter wheat is the only U.S. exchange durum wheat trading even around the world market prices. Also has a huge barn (total capacity of 2.2 billion kg), ranking second in the flour processing industry. Distributed around the vicinity of the Great Plains with cattle ranches, beef cattle are also worthy of city distribution. Therefore, the city's livestock slaughter and meat processing industry's size, stockyards area of nearly one million square meters, can accommodate cattle 170,000, ranking first in scale. Kansas City, a large natural cold storage (underground limestone cave), in the United States is also very famous.
Today's Kansas City and the industrial centers, in addition to agricultural and livestock products, there are car assembly, agricultural machinery, oil refining, chemical and steel industries. GM and Ford Motor Company has a large factory in here. This vending machine manufacturing, production ranks first in the country. In the U.S., people have the habit of exchanging greeting cards. Christmas cards or birthday cards mostly produced in Kansas. The city's Hallmark card company is the world's leading manufacturer of greeting cards and envelopes, with more than 10,000 employees, more than 500 artists each year to provide 1.4 million new cards designs. Founder Joyce Hall.
City, attractions
Kansas City Gangluan big ups and downs, trees, varied scenery, pleasant scenery, Kansas City, although large deep inland, but is no less in architecture, city building rise buildings, higher than the 30-story building on the There are nine. European-style buildings are many. Number second only to Roman fountain. Ownership after the boulevard in Paris, France. An area of 1769 hectares of Swope Park called the nation's second-largest city park.
In Kansas City's most prestigious is the steak, barbecue and jazz. Local beef cattle are fattened with grain, and meat especially tasty. The city more than 60 barbecue restaurants become America's "barbecue capital." World War I, Kansas City to become a breeding ground for jazz music. Changes in jazz music jazz Kansas built a new museum, the museum also includes a new Negro Football League Museum.
Union Station Plaza in front of a cylindrical hill of freedom monument (Liberty Memorial), was born in Missouri by the U.S. General Pershing (an American Expeditionary Force during World War commander, the first five-star general), who initiated built. Attached to an American World War I memorial only. The bells tower 305 a time every day and plays a beautiful music. City Country Club Plaza South (Coutry Club Plaza) was built in 1923, according to the U.S. plan to build up the first shopping center. Here a total of 150 shops, restaurants and nightclubs.
Culture, education
Kansas City's cultural, education is very well developed. University of Missouri was built in 1839, is the Mississippi River west of the oldest universities in the United States. School of Journalism was built in 1908, the United States is the world's first School of Journalism. Edgar Snow graduated from this school. In addition, it also has medical, agricultural, forestry, business management, education, law, books and other courses. The city's many museums, galleries, including large-scale Nelson museum, stocked is listed as one of the nation's largest museum.
Kansas City is the home of world famous reporter Edgar Snow, the existing residence as a double brick house. Snow graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism came to China as a reporter, after teaching at Yenching University.
Kansas City residents, in addition to the descendants of European immigrants, there are many other races, such as Chinese, Korean, Indo-China and so on. Chinese and more in the restaurant industry.
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