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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (25 children)

Stupid non-american question: Is any of these Kansas?

It's a common pub quiz factoid that Kansas City is not in Kansas

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Several border cities in the Midwestern United States are this way.

From the map at https://kchistory.org/faq/why-there-kansas-city-both-kansas-and-missouri, it looks like ~90% of Kansas City is in Missouri:-) (I dunno about differential population density though)

And in the same state a good portion of the greater city area surrounding St. Louis lies in Illinois (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis)

The area around Chicago - TIL it is called "Chicagoland", can anyone comment how often that is used by people in the region? - likewise extends into multiple (more than just two) states!

[–] Hawke 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

can anyone comment how often that is used by people in the region?

Frequently, though it’s mostly informal shorthand for “the greater Chicago metropolitan area”, you probably wouldn’t say “I live in Chicagoland” unless you were intentionally being vague.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I would have imagined that people would just call it all "Chicago":-)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not in front of people from ACTUAL Chicago. They're REALLY touchy about that afair..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haha, good to know, in case I ever visit, thanks!:-)

[–] captainlezbian 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's actually really worth a visit. Great city actually

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago
[–] Zidane 3 points 1 day ago

Just depends how spicy you're feeling

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