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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 ...
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 ...
List of counties in Missouri. 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 ...
The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.The nation's longest, [13] it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, then flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) [9] before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.
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.
Missouri is currently divided into 8 congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. Due to the 2010 census, Missouri lost a congressional seat in 2013. The biggest impact has been in the 3rd congressional district (which includes portions of St. Louis which had large population losses in the ...
Two sites in Missouri were once a National Historic Landmark but later had their designations withdrawn when they failed to meet the program's criteria for inclusion. [ 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 ...
The Missouri River Valley outlines the journey of the Missouri River from its headwaters where the Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin Rivers flow together in Montana to its confluence with the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. At 2,300 miles (3,700 km) long the valley drains one-sixth of the United States, [1] and is the longest river ...