Missouri
Missouri covers 69,709 square miles and has a population of 5,595,211 residents.
Missouri's capital is
Jefferson
City, which has a population of 39,636. Other important cities are
Kansas City
(pop. 441,545),
St. Louis (pop. 348,189),
Springfield
(pop. 151,580), Independence (pop. 113,288),
Columbia
(pop. 84,531), St. Joseph (pop. 73,990),
Lee's Summit
(pop. 70,700),
St. Charles (pop. 60,321),
St. Peters
(pop. 51,381), and Florissant (pop. 50,497).
Missouri was admitted to the Union on August 10th, 1821 as the 24th state. It is
bordered by
Iowa to the north,
Illinois to the east, Kentucky
and Tennessee to the southeast,
Arkansas to the south,
Oklahoma to the southwest,
Kansas to the west and
Nebraska to the northwest. The
state flower is the "Hawthorn" and its' nickname is the "Show Me State".
Missouri's economy is broken into two categories; agriculture and industry.
Cattle, soybeans, hogs, dairy
products, corn, poultry and eggs
provide for the agricultural side. While
transportation equipment, food
processing, chemical products, electric equipment and fabricated metal products
provide for the industrial side.