State of Missouri
Capital city Jefferson City Biggest city Kansas City Surface 180,533 km² Population 6.168.000 Length of highway network 2,445 km First highway 1958 Abbreviation MO Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States. The state has 6.1 million inhabitants (2021) and the capital is Jefferson City. The largest city is Kansas City and the largest conurbation is St. Louis. The state has an area of 180,533 square kilometers and is almost 5 times the size of the Netherlands. Geography Missouri is located in the Midwest and on the Great Plains but has a different geography, the southern half being much more forested and hillier with the Ozark Mountains than other Midwestern states. Missouri clockwise borders Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. Missouri, along with neighboring Tennessee, has…