<P> The city has an area of 319.03 square miles (826.28 km), of which, 314.95 square miles (815.72 km) is land and 4.08 square miles (10.57 km) is water . Bluffs overlook the rivers and river bottom areas . Kansas City proper is bowl - shaped and is surrounded to the north and south by glacier - carved limestone and bedrock cliffs . Kansas City is at the junction between the Dakota and Minnesota ice lobes during the maximum late Independence glaciation of the Pleistocene epoch . The Kansas and Missouri rivers cut wide valleys into the terrain when the glaciers melted and drained . A partially filled spillway valley crosses the central city . This valley is an eastward continuation of the Turkey Creek Valley . It is the closest major city to the geographic center of the contiguous United States, or "Lower 48". </P> <P> Kansas City, Missouri, comprises more than 240 neighborhoods, some with histories as independent cities or as the sites of major events . </P> <Ul> <Li> <P> View of Union Station and the Sprint Center </P> </Li> </Ul> <Li> <P> View of Union Station and the Sprint Center </P> </Li>

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