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Missouri is a US state
located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma,
Kansas and Nebraska. Missouri is the 21st most extensive and the 18th most populous of the 50 United States.
Missouri comprises 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. The four largest urban areas are St.
Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. Missouri's capital is Jefferson City. The land that is now
Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory.
Part of the Territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821.
Missouri mirrors the
demographic, economic and political makeup of the nation (in general) with a mix of urban and rural culture. It
has long been considered a political bellwether state. With the exceptions of 1956 and 2008, Missouri's results
in U.S. presidential elections have accurately predicted the next President of the United States in every
election since 1904. It has both Midwestern and Southern cultural influences, reflecting its history as a border
state. It is also a transition between the Eastern and Western United States, as St. Louis is often called the
"western-most Eastern city" and Kansas City the "eastern-most Western city." Missouri's geography is highly
varied. The northern part of the state lies in dissected till plains while the southern part lies in the Ozark
Mountains (a dissected plateau), with the Missouri River dividing the two. The confluence of the Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers is located near St. Louis. The starting points of the Pony Express Trail and Oregon Trail were
both in Missouri. The mean center of United States population as of the 2010 Census is at the town of Plato in
Texas County, Missouri.


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