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State of the central USA; nickname Show Me
State area 180,600 sq km/69,712 sq mi capital
Jefferson City towns St Louis, Kansas City,
Springfield, Independence features
Mississippi and Missouri rivers; Pony Express
Museum at St Joseph; birthplace of Jesse
James; Mark Twain State Park; Harry S Truman
Library at Independence products meat and
other processed food, aerospace and transport
equipment, lead, clay, coal population (1986)
5,066,000 famous people T S Eliot, Joseph
Pulitzer, Mark Twain history explored by de
Soto 1541; acquired under the Louisiana
Purchase; achieved statehood 1821.