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Greater St. Louis is the 23rd-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States, [3] [4] the largest in Missouri, and the second-largest in Illinois.Its core city—St. Louis, Missouri—sits in the geographic center of the metro area, on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
The Rivers around St. Louis. St. Louis is located at 1] The city is built primarily on bluffs and terraces that rise 100–200 feet (30–61 m) above the western banks of the Mississippi River, just south of the Missouri-Mississippi confluence. Much of the area is a fertile and gently rolling prairie that features low hills and broad, shallow ...
The Saint Louis River (abbreviated St. Louis River) is a river in the U.S. states of Minnesota and Wisconsin that flows into Lake Superior. The largest U.S. river to flow into the lake, it is 192 miles (309 km) in length [1] and starts 13 miles (21 km) east of Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. The river's watershed covers 3,634 square miles (9,410 km 2).
The gross domestic product of Greater St. Louis was $209.9 billion in 2022, up from $192.9 billion the previous year. [17] Greater St. Louis had a GDP per capita of $68,574 in 2021, up 10% from the previous year.
The River des Peres (French: rivière des Pères) (English: / d ʌ ˈ p ɛər /) is a 9.3-mile (15.0 km) [1] metropolitan river in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the backbone of sanitary and storm water systems in the city of St. Louis and portions of St. Louis County. Its largest tributaries are Deer Creek and Gravois Creek. At St. Louis, the ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 02:27, 11 February 2007: 3,453 × 6,157 (85 KB): Dual Freq: This is a map showing St. Louis Metro-East, 5 Illinois counties of the St. Louis MSA as described by the 2000 census.
The area is within the Metro East region, which is within the Greater St. Louis Metropolitan area. The western boundary is dictated by the flow of the Mississippi river, beginning at the confluence of the Illinois and ending at the confluence of the Missouri. The eastern boundary stretches through a contiguous urbanized area revolving around ...
The Metro East is an urban area in Southern Illinois, United States that contains the eastern and northern urban, suburban, and exurban areas on the Mississippi River in Greater St. Louis. It encompasses eight Illinois counties and constitutes the second-most populous metropolitan area in Illinois .