Cape Girardeau
Cape Girardeau is a city named after a French soldier/trader in southeastern Missouri. Watch out for murals and flood walls in this college town.Photo: Drowzy, Public domain.
- Type: City with 37,900 residents
- Description: city in Cape Girardeau and Scott Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri
- Also known as: “Cape Girardeau, Missouri”, “Cape Girardeau, MO”, and “Decatur - in-part”
- Postal codes: 63701-63703
Places of Interest
Highlights include Houck Stadium and Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge.
Houck Stadium
Stadium
Houck Field is an stadium in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. It opened in 1930 and was named after famous Missouri resident Louis Houck. Today it is home to the Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks football team and women's soccer teams.
Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Framerotblues, Public domain.
The Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge connecting Missouri's Route 34 and Route 74 with Illinois Route 146 across the Mississippi River between Cape Girardeau, Missouri and East Cape Girardeau, Illinois.
Southeast Missouri Hospital
Hospital
Southeast Hospital is a private, not-for-profit hospital located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Southeast Missouri Hospital first opened in 1928 and has grown into a regional medical complex serving over 600,000 people in 22 counties in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois.
Cape Girardeau
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Cape Girardeau Township, Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri, Missouri, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.3047° or 37° 18′ 17″ northLongitude
-89.5176° or 89° 31′ 4″ westPopulation
37,900Elevation
354 feet (108 metres)IATA airport code
CGIUnited Nations Location Code
US CGIOpen location code
869G8F3J+VWOpenStreetMap ID
node 153420177OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4379966Wikidata ID
Q866294
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Cape Girardeau” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاب جيراردو”
- Basque: “Cape Girardeau”
- Belarusian: “Кейп-Джырарда”
- Catalan: “Cape Girardeau”
- Cebuano: “Cape Girardeau”
- Chechen: “Кейп-Джирардо”
- Chinese: “Cape Girardeau”
- Chinese: “开普吉拉多”
- Czech: “Cape Girardeau”
- Dagbani: “Cape Girardeau”
- Danish: “Cape Girardeau”
- Dutch: “Cape Girardeau”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاب جيراردو”
- Esperanto: “Cape Girardeau”
- Finnish: “Cape Girardeau”
- French: “Cap Girardeau”
- French: “Cap-Girardeau”
- French: “Cape Girardeau”
- German: “Cape Girardeau”
- Gilaki: “کیپ ژراردؤ (ميزؤري)”
- Gilaki: “کیپ ژراردؤ”
- Haitian: “Cape Girardeau, Missouri”
- Haitian: “Cape Girardeau”
- Hebrew: “קייפ ג’ררדו”
- Hungarian: “Cape Girardeau”
- Ido: “Cape Girardeau, Missouri”
- Ido: “Cape Girardeau”
- Irish: “Cape Girardeau”
- Italian: “Cape Girardeau”
- Japanese: “ケープ・ジラード”
- Japanese: “ケープジラード”
- Kazakh: “Keýp Jïrardo”
- Kazakh: “Кейп Жирардо”
- Kazakh: “Кэйп Жирардю”
- Kazakh: “كەيپ جىيراردو”
- Kirghiz: “Кэйп Жирардю”
- Korean: “케이프 지라도”
- Korean: “케이프 지라르도”
- Korean: “케이프지라도”
- Korean: “케이프지라르도”
- Ladin: “Cape Girardeau”
- Mazanderani: “کیپ ژراردو (میزوری)”
- Mazanderani: “کیپ ژراردو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cape Girardeau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Girardeau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Girardeau”
- Norwegian: “Cape Girardeau”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Næssgirardēa”
- Persian: “کیپ ژراردو، میزوری”
- Persian: “کیپ ژراردو”
- Polish: “Cape Girardeau”
- Portuguese: “Cape Girardeau”
- Romanian: “Cape Girardeau, Missouri”
- Romanian: “Cape Girardeau”
- Russian: “Кейп Джирардо”
- Russian: “Кейп-Джирардо”
- Serbian: “Кејп Џирардо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cape Girardeau, Missouri”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cape Girardeau”
- Silesian: “Cape Girardeau”
- Slovak: “Cape Girardeau”
- Slovenian: “Cape Girardeau”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیپ ژراردو، میزوری”
- Spanish: “Cape Girardeau (Misuri)”
- Spanish: “Cape Girardeau”
- Swedish: “Cape Girardeau”
- Tatar: “Кейп-Джирардо”
- Turkish: “Cape Girardeau, Missouri”
- Turkish: “Cape Girardeau”
- Ukrainian: “Кейп-Джирардо”
- Urdu: “کیپ جیرادو، مسوری”
- Urdu: “کیپ جیرادو”
- Uzbek: “Cape Girardeau”
- Vietnamese: “Cape Girardeau, Missouri”
- Vietnamese: “Cape Girardeau”
- Volapük: “Cape Girardeau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cape Girardeau, Missouri”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cape Girardeau”
- Welsh: “Cape Girardeau, Missouri”
- Welsh: “Cape Girardeau”
- Yiddish: “קאפ דזשירארדא”
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