Kansas City, Missouri

===Abbreviations and nicknames===
Kansas City, Missouri is abbreviated as KCMO and the [[Kansas City metropolitan area|metropolitan area]] as KC. Residents are Kansas Citians. It is officially nicknamed the [[List of fountains in the Kansas City metropolitan area|City of Fountains]]. The fountains at [[Kauffman Stadium]], commissioned by original [[Kansas City Royals]] owner Ewing Kauffman, are the largest privately funded fountains in the world.<ref name="RoadTrip">{{cite book |last=Pahigaian |first=Josh |author2=Kevin O'Connell |title=The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip |year=2004 |publisher=Lyons Press |location=Guilford, Connecticut |isbn=1-59228-159-1 }}</ref> In 2018, [[UNESCO]] designated Kansas City its first and only [[City of Music (UNESCO)|City of Music]] in the US, in "recognition of [Kansas City's] investment and commitment to music, arts, and creativity as a driver of urban economic development".<ref name="unesco city of music"/> The city has more [[boulevard]]s than any other city except [[Paris]] and has been called '''Paris of the [[Great Plains|Plains]]'''. Soccer's popularity, and [[Children's Mercy Park]]'s popularity as a home stadium for the [[United States men's national soccer team|U.S. Men's National Team]], led to the appellation Soccer Capital of America. The city is called the Heart of America, in proximity to the [[Mean center of U.S. population|population center]] of the United States and the [[Geographic centers of the United States|geographic center]] of the 48 contiguous states.