(state) State in central US; nicknamed Show Me State/Bullion State
area 180,600 sq km/69,712 sq mi
capital Jefferson City
towns and cities St Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, Independence
features Ozark Mountains and the Lake of the Ozarks; Missouri and Mississippi rivers; Mark Twain national forest; St Louis, with the Gateway Arch (1966, 192 m/630 ft high), in Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park, St Louis Art Museum, the Cathedral of St Louis, the world headquarters of Anheuser-Busch (makers of Budweiser beer), and the St Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame; Wilson’s Creek national battlefield; the Pony Express national memorial, and the birthplace of Jesse James, in St Joseph; Ste Genevieve, the oldest permanent settlement in Missouri, with 18th-century Creole architecture; the Carver national monument, the birthplace of George Washington Carver; the Mark Twain home and museum, Hannibal; Missouri Town 1855, in Blue Springs; Laura Ingalls Wilder home, Mansfield; Harry S Truman library and museum, and the Truman home, at Independence; Fulton, site of Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain��� speech 1946, with collection of Churchilliana in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury, bombed in London during World War II and reassembled at Fulton; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, a fine collection of Asian art; St Louis Symphony Orchestra; “Bible Belt” centered on Springfield
products meat and other processed food, aerospace and transport equipment, lead, zinc

famous people George Washington Carver, T S Eliot, Jesse James, Joseph Pulitzer, Harry S Truman, Mark Twain
history explored by Hernando de Soto for Spain 1541; acquired by the US under the Louisiana Purchase 1803; achieved statehood 1821, following the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Strong sympathy for both sides existed, but the state remained part of the Union during the Civil War; many battles and skirmishes fostered a general lawlessness that continued in the postwar exploits of such bandits as Jesse and Frank James.
While St Louis was eclipsed by Chicago as the commercial center of the Midwest, Kansas City benefited from the growth of the railroads. Increasingly urbanized and industrialized in the 20th century, Missouri is second to Michigan in producing automobiles and ranks high in aerospace production.
1. A midwestern state in central United States; Also called: Show Me State.
2. The longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis.
3. A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri.
4. A dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri people.
(river) Major river in the central US, a tributary of the Mississippi, which it joins N of St Louis; length 4,320 km/2,683 mi.
It is formed by the confluence of the Jefferson, Gallatin, and Madison rivers in SW Montana and flows SE through the states of Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota to Sioux City, Iowa, where it turns S and forms the borders between Iowa and Nebraska and between Kansas and Missouri. Kansas City, Missouri, is the largest city on its banks. Since 1944 the muddy, turbulent river has been tamed by a series of locks and dams for irrigation and flood control. + prikaži više