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Country Guide > North America > United States of America > Missouri | |
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General Information Nickname Show Me State State bird Bluebird State flower Hawthorn Flower Capital Jefferson City Date of admission to the Union August 10 1821 Population 5,754,618 (official estimate 2004) Population density 31.9 per sq km 2003 total overseas arrivals/US ranking 90,000/29 Time Central (GMT - 6). Daylight Saving Time is observed. The State Missouri, in the heart of the USA, is a blend of frontier West, gracious South, the sophisticated East and industrial North. The Missouri Valley was a major pioneer route, with St Louis known as ‘The Gateway to the West’. It is bounded by the Mississippi River in the east. Prairies lie north of the Missouri River (the longest in the USA), with great plains to the west, rolling hills in the south and the Southern-style cotton lands to the southeast. The State’s riverboat culture was immortalised by Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi and in his tales of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. |