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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.
Kansas City, Missouri (KC or KCMO) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area. Most of the city lies within Jackson County , and other portions spill into Clay , Platte , and Cass counties.
It is the largest metropolitan area in Missouri and the second-largest in Illinois. The city's combined statistical area is the 20th-largest in the United States. [12] The land that became St. Louis had been occupied by Native American cultures for thousands of years before European settlement.
Greater St. Louis is the 21st-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 river bisects the metro area geographically ...
Springfield is the third most populous city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. [4] The city's population was 169,176 at the 2020 census. [5] It is the principal city of the Springfield metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 487,061 in 2022 [6] and includes the counties of Christian, Dallas, Greene, Polk, and Webster, [7] The city sits on the ...
Jefferson City, informally Jeff City, [ 1] is the capital of the U.S. state of Missouri. It had a population of 43,228 at the 2020 census, [ 8] ranking as the 16th most populous city in the state. [ 9] It is also the county seat of Cole County and the principal city of the Jefferson City Metropolitan Statistical Area, the second-most-populous ...
Jefferson City is the capital city of Missouri, while the state's five largest cities are Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield, Columbia, and Independence. [143] St. Louis is the principal city of the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, composed of 17 counties and the independent city of St. Louis; eight of its counties are in Illinois.
Kansas City metropolitan area. / 39.1°N 94.58°W / 39.1; -94.58. The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties).