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Contrary to popular belief, Kansas City, a bi-state metropolitan region that comprises 10 counties and parts of Kansas and Missouri, is not on the plains.

It is on a series of hills. Rising up suddenly from the flatlands to the west, green and twinkling on the bluffs above the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers, Kansas City is generally agreed to have been the inspiration for L. Frank Baum's Emerald City of Oz.

Visitors who expect the metropolitan area to be totally flat and corn-rowed are delighted by its hilliness (elevation ranges from 72 feet to 1,105 feet above sea level), as well as it's leafy boulevards, elegant shopping and its cosmopolitan mix of people – few of them cowboys.

Culture overflows in Kansas City. It spills out into the streets as free concerts and festivals are help in parks and parking lots, at shopping centers and on the steps of public buildings. Sculpture and fountains – more than in any other city in the world – dot the parks, or enhance buildings and boulevards.

Festivals celebrating Kansas City's rich ethnic mix abound. With more than two dozen colorful celebrations yearly, Kansas City, Kansas, is known as the "City of Festivals." It's all part of the sensory and cultural abundance that is Kansas City.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art – usually ranked among the top eight general art museums in America – holds one of the finest Oriental collections in the Western world, as well as memorable works by such artists as Monet and Caravaggio.

People who move to Kansas City have the same thing to say, no matter where they come from. They comment on how friendly the general population is and how easy it is to fit into their new neighborhood.