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submitted 2 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] scsi@lemm.ee 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Kansas state is the rectangle on the right; Kansas City is one of those weird things which exists in both Kansas and Missouri next to each other, one was named after the other. Technically one is a small suburb of the other (150k ppl vs 2m ppl) - but for pub trivia, it does exist by name as an incorporated city in the state of Kansas.

The Missouri one is the bigger, more populated well known "KC" which is probably why it gets added to foreign pub trivia incorrectly (just a guess).

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Additional fun fact, Kansas has in the past attempted to annex Kansas City, Missouri.

The metro area being split between MO and KS has also caused a race to the bottom for certain kinds of regulations and taxes because for many businesses the cost of moving between the two states was essentially moving from one side of State Line Rd to the other.

Such a strange metro area.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The cities also indexed their streets off of the same river, but at different places along the curving bank. As a result, traveling south in KCMO increments the street numbers, but in KCK, the numbers increment when you travel west.

For more hilarity, the cities to the south of KCK adopted the KCMO street number designations, so KCK is the odd city out.

A satellite view of the Kansas City Metro area, depicting a river that turns 90 degrees at the state line, with arrows indicating the direction in which the street numbers increment: westward for Kansas City Kansas, and southward for all other areas.

[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

I lived there for years and didn't know this! That's insane!