Kansas City

Japanese: カンザス・シティ(英語表記)Kansas City
Kansas City
A commercial and industrial city on the eastern edge of Kansas, USA. Population 143,000 (1994). It is separated by the Missouri River from a larger city of the same name on the Missouri side, and together they form Greater Kansas City. Formerly called Wyandot, the state constitution was drafted here when Kansas joined the Union as a free state. In 1861, it was designated the eastern terminus of the transcontinental railroad. The city is a thriving center for the shipping of agricultural and livestock products, but the oil and automobile industries are also important. [Okada Yasuo]

Kansas City

A commercial and industrial city in the western tip of Missouri, USA. Population: 444,000 (1994), metropolitan population: 1.62 million (1992). Located at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas rivers, it developed as a river port city and gateway to the West after white settlement in 1821 (Independence, adjacent to the city, is the starting point of both the Oregon and Santa Fe highways). It is an important junction of highways, railroads, airways, and inland waterways, and is known as a distribution center for agricultural and livestock products such as wheat and meat, with huge grain silos and a livestock market.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
アメリカ合衆国,カンザス州東端の商工業都市。人口14万3000(1994)。ミズーリ川をはさんで,ミズーリ州側に同名のより大きな都市があり,両者で大カンザス市を形成している。かつてはワイアンドットと名づけられた町で,カンザス州が自由州として連邦に加入する際の州憲法はここで制定された。1861年,大陸横断鉄道の東端とされた。農産物・畜産物の積出しが盛んであるが,石油,自動車産業なども重要である。【岡田 泰男】

カンザス・シティ【Kansas City】

アメリカ合衆国,ミズーリ州西端部の商工業都市。人口44万4000(1994),大都市域人口162万(1992)。ミズーリ川とカンザス川の合流点にあり,1821年の白人入植後,河港都市また西部への玄関口(市に隣接するインディペンデンスはオレゴン,サンタ・フェ両街道の起点)として発展した。ハイウェー,鉄道,航空路,内陸水運の重要な結節点で,小麦と肉類などの農牧産品集散地として知られ,巨大な穀物サイロと家畜市場がある。

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