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Missouri (/mɪˈzʊəri/ ^ⓘ miz-OOR-ee) is a doubly landlocked state in the Southern and Midwestern region of the United States. 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 highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center and into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With over six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. The capital is Jefferson City.

Humans have inhabited present-day Missouri for at least 12,000 years. The Mississippian culture, which emerged in the ninth century, built cities and mounds before declining in the 14th century. The Indigenous Osage and Missouria nations inhabited the area when European people arrived in the 17th century. The French incorporated the territory into Louisiana, founding Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764. After a brief period of Spanish rule, the United States acquired Missouri as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Americans from the Upland South rushed into the new Missouri Territory; Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States. Missouri was admitted as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. As a border state, Missouri's role in the American Civil War was complex, and it was subject to rival governments, raids, and guerilla warfare. After the war, both Greater St. Louis and the Kansas City metropolitan area became centers of industrialization and business.

Today the state is divided into 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. Missouri has been called the "Mother of the West", the "Cave State", and the "Show Me State". Its culture blends elements of the Midwestern and Southern United States. It is the birthplace of the musical genres ragtime, Kansas City jazz and St. Louis blues. The well-known Kansas City-style barbecue, and the lesser-known St. Louis-style barbecue, can be found across the state and beyond. (Full article...)

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Tishaura Oneda Jones (/tɪˈʃɑːrə/ tish-AR-ə; born March 10, 1972) is an American politician who has served as the mayor of St. Louis, Missouri since April 2021. A member of the Missouri Democratic Party, Jones served from 2008 to 2013 in the Missouri House of Representatives; and as Treasurer of the City of St. Louis from 2013 to 2021.

Born in St. Louis to a former city comptroller, Jones studied at Hampton University in Virginia, returning to St. Louis upon graduating in 1994. Following a failed attempt to start a restaurant that left her bankrupt, she entered nursing, graduating from the Saint Louis University College for Public Health with a Master of Health Administration in 2001 and working for Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital for two years. (Full article...)

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Counties where Missouri French is or was formerly spoken.

Missouri French (French: français du Missouri) or Illinois Country French (French: français du Pays des Illinois) also known as français vincennois, français Cahok, and nicknamed "Paw-Paw French" often by individuals outside the community but not exclusively, is a variety of the French language spoken in the upper Mississippi River Valley in the Midwestern United States, particularly in eastern Missouri.

The language is one of the major varieties of French that developed in the United States. At one point it was widely spoken in areas of Bonne Terre, Valles Mines, Desloge, De Soto, Ste. Genevieve, Old Mines, Cadet, St. Louis, Richwoods, Prairie du Rocher, Cahokia, Kaskaskia, and Vincennes as well as several other locations. Speakers of Missouri French may call themselves "créoles", as they are descendants of colonial Louisiana French people of the Illinois Country (Upper Louisiana) and their native-born descendants. (Full article...)

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Image 1The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 2The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 3Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 4Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 5African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 6Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 7Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 8Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 9Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 10Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 11Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 12Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 13A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 14The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 15Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 16The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 17The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination. (from Missouri)
Image 18A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
Image 19A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 20Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 21Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 22Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 23General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 24Missouri has five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, St. Louis City SC of MLS, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL. (from Missouri)
Image 25Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 26Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 27African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 28Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 29The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (from Missouri)
Image 30The Missouri Governor's Mansion is included in the Missouri State Capitol Historic District. (from Missouri)
Image 31The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination. (from Missouri)
Image 32The states and territories of the United States as a result of Missouri's admission as a state on August 10, 1821. The remainder of the former Missouri Territory became unorganized territory. (from Missouri)
Image 33Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 34Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 35American pioneers such as Daniel Boone with his sons Daniel Morgan Boone, Nathan Boone, and other family members, came to Spanish-controlled Missouri during the 1790s. (from History of Missouri)
Image 36Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 37The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 38Missouri has five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, St. Louis City SC of MLS, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL. (from Missouri)
Image 39General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 40Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 41A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 42The population center for the United States has been in Missouri since 1980. As of 2020, it is near Interstate 44 in Missouri as it approaches Springfield. (from Missouri)
Image 43St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 44Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 45Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 46Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)

Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

Legend

Non-Hispanic White

50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

80–90%

90%+

Black or African American

40–50%

(from Missouri)

Image 48Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 49The Shelley House in St. Louis was the focus of a 1948 U.S. Supreme Court case that prohibited restrictive covenants in housing. (from History of Missouri)
Image 50Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 51Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 52Christopher Bond became the youngest person elected Governor of Missouri in 1972 and was part of the rise of the Republican Party in the state. (from History of Missouri)
Image 53Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
Image 54Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 55Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 56Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
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- Non-Hispanic White
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
  
    90%+
  
  Black or African American
    40–50%
(from Missouri)
Image 57Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 58Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 59Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 60The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 61Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 62The George Washington Carver National Monument near Diamond, Missouri was the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to a non-President and the first for an African-American. (from History of Missouri)
Image 63The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 64Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 65Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 66The states and territories of the United States as a result of Missouri's admission as a state on August 10, 1821. The remainder of the former Missouri Territory became unorganized territory. (from Missouri)
Image 67A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 68Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 69Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 70The Missouri Governor's Mansion is included in the Missouri State Capitol Historic District. (from Missouri)
Image 71Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 72Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 73The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 74Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 75The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 76Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 77Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 78The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)

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... that supporters of a 2020 ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in Missouri did not use the words "Medicaid expansion" to describe their proposal in some campaign material?
... that a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?
... that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?
... that during the August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods, 3.77 inches (96 mm) of rain fell in Columbia, Missouri, breaking a 113-year rainfall record?
... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
... that despite Missourians voting for Henry Clay, Missouri representative John Scott voted for John Quincy Adams?

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