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Missouri (see pronunciation) is a landlocked state in the 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. With over six million residents, it is the 19th-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 with pyramidal and other ceremonial 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, taking advantage of its productive agricultural plains; 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 large 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 "Gateway to the West", 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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Yount in 1873

Harry S. Yount (March 18, 1839 – May 16, 1924) was an American Union Army soldier, mountain man, hunter, prospector, wrangler and wilderness guide. A seasonal employee of the United States Department of the Interior, he was the first game warden in Yellowstone National Park. He was nicknamed "Rocky Mountain Harry Yount".

Yount served two terms in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He first enlisted for a six-month term in November 1861. He was wounded and taken prisoner by the Confederate States Army in an opening skirmish of the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas in March 1862, and held as a prisoner of war for nearly a month until released in a prisoner exchange. He re-enlisted in August 1862 and served until the end of the war. He was promoted three times and was a company quartermaster sergeant when he was discharged in July 1865. (Full article...)

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Downtown Kansas City

The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its fourteen counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (nine counties) and Kansas (five counties). The 8,472 square miles (21,940 km²) 2024 estimated census calculated a population of more than 2.2 million people, it is the second-largest metropolitan area centered in Missouri (after Greater St. Louis) and is the largest metropolitan area in Kansas, though Wichita is the largest metropolitan area centered in Kansas.^{[new archival link needed]} Alongside Kansas City, Missouri, these are the suburbs with populations above 100,000: Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; Olathe, Kansas; Independence, Missouri; and Lee's Summit, Missouri.

Cultural attractions include the American Jazz Museum, the Kansas City Symphony, Kansas City Union Station, the National World War I Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, the National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Arabia Steamboat Museum, Uptown Theater, Midland Theatre, the Kansas City Zoo, Swope Park (featuring Starlight Theater), Sandstone Amphitheater, the Kansas City Renaissance Festival, Worlds of Fun, Oceans of Fun, the College Basketball Experience, the NWSL’s Kansas City Current, and several casinos. Major league sports franchises include the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs, the MLB's Kansas City Royals, and the MLS's Sporting Kansas City. The Kansas Speedway is owned by NASCAR. (Full article...)

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Image 1Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)
Image 2American 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 3Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 4The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 5Areas of Spanish Louisiana around 1803 overlaid over the current American states that it encompassed. (from Missouri)
Image 6The 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 7Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 8Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 9Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 10A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 11African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938 (from Missouri)
Image 12Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 13Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 14A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
Image 15Missouri is the only state to have two main Federal Reserve Banks (Kansas City bank pictured). (from Missouri)

Map 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%+

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Image 17World War I General John J. Pershing was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 18Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 19Christopher 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 20Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 21African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938 (from Missouri)
Image 22The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 23Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 24Largest alone or in any combination ethnic origin by county in Missouri, per the 2020 census (from Missouri)
Image 25Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 26Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 27The 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 28St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 29Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 30The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 312024 United States presidential election results by county
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Republican
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Image 32A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 33Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 34Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 35Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 36The 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 37The 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 38Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 39The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 40The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 41The 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 42Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 43Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 442024 United States presidential election results by county
Democratic
Republican
(from Missouri)
Image 45Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 46Largest alone or in any combination ethnic origin by county in Missouri, per the 2020 census (from Missouri)
Image 47The 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 48Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
Image 49Map 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 50Mel Carnahan served as Governor of Missouri from 1993 until his death in a plane crash in 2000. (from History of Missouri)

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... that Interstate 155 is the only piece of surface transportation infrastructure that directly connects the U.S. states of Missouri and Tennessee?
... that when a developer tried to buy Kansas City's New York Life Building in the 1990s, it was unclear who owned it?
... that a memoir about asexuality is permanently banned from schools in Wentzville, Missouri?
... that the only casualty of USS Missouri's destruction was a pet bear?
... that Missouri did not repeal its school segregation laws until 22 years after Brown v. Board of Education?
... that a Missouri TV station was twice denied in its efforts to move its transmitter tower to Kansas to increase its coverage area?

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