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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.
There are 114 counties and one independent city in the U.S. State of Missouri. Following the Louisiana Purchase and the admittance of Louisiana into the United States in 1812, five counties were formed out of the Missouri Territory at the first general assembly: Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Saint Charles, Saint Louis, and Ste. Genevieve.
St. Louis, largest metropolitan area Kansas City, second largest metropolitan area Following are the metropolitan or metropolitan statistical areas of Missouri with population statistics [ 1 ] : Rank
This category contains articles about populated places in the U.S. state of Missouri which are legally incorporated as a city, whether of 3rd Class, 4th Class, legislatively chartered, or specially chartered. St. Louis is an independent city and not part of any Missouri county. The main article for this category is List of cities in Missouri.
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 ...
29-37000 [7] GNIS ID. 758233 [5] Website. jeffersoncitymo.gov. 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 ...
Coordinates: 38°45′N 92°15′W. Mid-Missouri is a loosely-defined region comprising the central area of the U.S. state of Missouri. The region's largest city is Columbia (population 121,717); [1] the Missouri state capital, Jefferson City, and the University of Missouri are also located here. The region also includes portions of the Lake of ...
Missouri (/ m ɪ ˈ z ʊər i / ⓘ 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.