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Missouri (/mɪˈzʊəri/ miz-OOR-ee) 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. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center and into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With over six million residents, it is the 18th-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 at least in the ninth century, built cities and mounds before declining in the 14th century. When European explorers arrived in the 17th century, they encountered the Osage and Missouria nations. 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; 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 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 "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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Boone depicted in an 1820 portrait by Chester Harding, the only known portrait of him made during his lifetime

Daniel Boone (November 2 [O.S. October 22], 1734 – September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and frontiersman whose exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. He became famous for his exploration and settlement of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Thirteen Colonies. In 1775, Boone blazed the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky, in the face of resistance from American Indians, for whom the area was a traditional hunting ground. He founded Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. By the end of the 18th century, more than 200,000 people had entered Kentucky by following the route marked by Boone.

Boone served as a militia officer during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), which was fought in Kentucky primarily between American settlers and British-allied Indians. Boone was taken in by Shawnees in 1778 and adopted into the tribe, but he resigned and continued to help protect the Kentucky settlements. He also left due to the Shawnee Indians torturing and killing one of his sons. He was elected to the first of his three terms in the Virginia General Assembly during the war and fought in the Battle of Blue Licks in 1782, one of the last battles of the American Revolution. He worked as a surveyor and merchant after the war, but went deep into debt as a Kentucky land speculator. He resettled in Missouri in 1799, where he spent most of the last two decades of his life, frustrated with legal problems resulting from his land claims. (Full article...)

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The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in 1839 as the first public university west of the Mississippi River. It has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1908 and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".

Enrolling 31,041 students in 2023, it offers more than 300 degree programs in thirteen major academic divisions. Its Missouri School of Journalism, founded by Walter Williams in 1908, was established as the world's first journalism school; it publishes a daily newspaper, the Columbia Missourian, and operates NBC affiliate KOMU. The University of Missouri Research Reactor Center is the sole source of isotopes in nuclear medicine in the United States. The university operates University of Missouri Health Care, running several hospitals and clinics in Mid-Missouri. (Full article...)

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Image 1The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 2The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City services the western portion of Missouri, as well as all of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. (from Missouri)
Image 3Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 4The 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 5Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 6The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 7Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 8Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 9Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 10Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 11The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 12Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 13Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 14Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 15African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 16General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 17The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 18Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 19The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination. (from Missouri)
Image 20The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 21Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 22Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)

Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

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50–60%

60–70%

70–80%

80–90%

90%+

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Image 24A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 25Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from Missouri)
Image 26Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Missouri painter George Caleb Bingham (from Missouri)
Image 27Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 28The 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 29The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 30The 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 31Map of early Missouri settlements and trading posts (from History of Missouri)
Image 32Map of Southwest Missouri Railroad Company c 1907 (from Missouri)
Image 33Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 34General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, was raised in Laclede, Missouri. (from Missouri)
Image 35Most Missourians traveled longer distances by water, and large cargo was transported by bateaux (shown above). (from History of Missouri)
Image 36Köppen climate types of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 37Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 38Child shoe workers in Kirksville, Missouri, 1910 (from Missouri)
Image 39The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. (from Missouri)
Image 40The Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City (from Missouri)
Image 41Forrest Smith, elected Governor of Missouri in 1948, was the first governor chosen under the 1945 state Constitution. (from History of Missouri)
Image 42Missouri River near Rocheport, Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 43Meramec Caverns (from Missouri)
Image 44Map of counties in Missouri by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census
Legend
- Non-Hispanic White
    50–60%
  
    60–70%
  
    70–80%
  
    80–90%
  
    90%+
  
  Black or African American
    40–50%
(from Missouri)
Image 45St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch pioneered the use of refrigerator cars to market beer nationally. (from History of Missouri)
Image 46The Mississippi River at Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 47The historic Gem Theatre, located in Kansas City's renowned 18th and Vine Jazz District (from Missouri)
Image 48Union Station in St. Louis was the world's largest and busiest train station when it opened in 1894. (from Missouri)
Image 49Jesse Hall on the University of Missouri campus (from Missouri)
Image 50The Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest (from Missouri)
Image 51The Lake of the Ozarks is one of several man-made lakes in Missouri, created by the damming of several rivers and tributaries. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres and 1,150 miles of shoreline and has become a popular tourist destination. (from Missouri)
Image 52A Rural Electrification Administration lineman at work in Hayti, Missouri in 1942. (from History of Missouri)
Image 53Price's Raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater, 1864 (from Missouri)
Image 54Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 55American 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 56Mark Twain's boyhood home in Hannibal (from Missouri)
Image 57Missouri population density map (from Missouri)
Image 58Price's Raid in the Western Theater, 1864 (from History of Missouri)
Image 59The 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 60Missouri has five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, St. Louis City SC of MLS, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL. (from Missouri)
Image 61Christopher 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 62Missouri has five major sports teams: the Royals and Cardinals of MLB, St. Louis City SC of MLS, the Chiefs of the NFL, and the Blues of the NHL. (from Missouri)
Image 63Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 64A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 65Kansas City Streetcar near Union Station (from Missouri)
Image 66Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 67The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City services the western portion of Missouri, as well as all of Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. (from Missouri)
Image 68Missouri State quarter featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition (from Missouri)
Image 69The Governor's Mansion is on the National Register of Historic Places. (from Missouri)
Image 70A mural honoring the Kansas City Chiefs on the wall of the Westport Alehouse in Kansas City, MO. (from Missouri)
Image 71Ethnic origins in Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 72Amtrak station in Kirkwood (from Missouri)
Image 73Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis (from Missouri)
Image 74Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals play. (from Missouri)
Image 75A physiographic map of Missouri (from Missouri)
Image 76African American boy in a sharecropper shack, New Madrid County, 1938. (from Missouri)
Image 77The 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 78The 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)

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... that despite Missourians voting for Henry Clay, Missouri representative John Scott voted for John Quincy Adams?
... that a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?
... that during the August 2023 Mid-South U.S. floods, 3.77 inches (96 mm) of rain fell in Columbia, Missouri, breaking a 113-year rainfall record?
... that supporters of a 2020 ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in Missouri did not use the words "Medicaid expansion" to describe their proposal in some campaign material?
... that Missouri's annual Snake Saturday parade originally began in a hotel parking lot with only four floats?
... that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?

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