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Largest cities. Kansas City, largest city in Missouri. St. Louis, second-largest city. Springfield, third-largest city. Columbia, fourth-largest city. Independence, a satellite city of Kansas City and the fifth-largest city. St. Joseph. Joplin. Jefferson City, state capital and sixteenth-largest city.
Jefferson City, informally Jeff City, [1] is the capital of the U.S. state of Missouri. It had a population of 43,228 at the 2020 census, [8] ranking as the 16th most populous city in the state. [9] It is also the county seat of Cole County and the principal city of the Jefferson City Metropolitan Statistical Area, the second-most-populous ...
Missouri. Missouri (/ mɪˈzʊəri / ⓘ miz-OOR-ee) is a double landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. [6] Ranking 21st in land area, it borders Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested ...
The following is a list of all incorporated communities in the state of Missouri. There are 958 municipalities. ... †† State capital and county seat. City Type ...
[2] [3] The NHLs are distributed across fifteen of Missouri's 114 counties and one independent city, with a concentration of fifteen landmarks in the state's only independent city, St. Louis. The National Park Service (NPS), a branch of the U.S. Department of the Interior, administers the National Historic Landmark program. The NPS is ...
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
Geography of Missouri. Missouri, a state near the geographical center of the United States, has three distinct physiographic divisions: the Missouri portion of the Ozark Plateau (areas 14a and 14b) which lies between the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and the Central lowland. The boundary between the northern plains and the Ozark region follows the ...
The town of Kansas, Missouri, was incorporated on June 1, 1850, reincorporated and renamed City of Kansas on March 28, 1853, and renamed Kansas City in 1889. The area straddles the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, and was considered a good place settle.