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Jefferson City

Jefferson City is the capital city of . In 2013, Jefferson City was named America's "Most Beautiful" Small Town by Rand McNally.
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  • Type: City with 43,100 residents
  • Description: capital city of Missouri, United States
  • Also known as: “City of Jefferson”, “Jeff City”, “Jefferson”, “Jefferson City, Missouri”, “Jefferson City, MO”, and “Jefferson, Missouri”
  • Postal codes: 65101-65111

Places of Interest

Highlights include Missouri State Capitol and Lincoln University.

Public building
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The is the home of the Missouri General Assembly and the executive branch of government of the U.S. state of . Located in Jefferson City at 201 West Capitol Avenue, it is the third capitol to be built in the city.

University
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is a public, historically black, land-grant university in Jefferson City, Missouri. Founded in 1866 by African-American veterans of the American Civil War, it is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

Railway station
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Jefferson City is an Amtrak train station in Jefferson City, , United States. The station is located on the ground floor of the former Union Hotel, which was built in 1855 and is part of the .

Jefferson City

Latitude
38.5774° or 38° 34′ 39″ north
Longitude
-92.1724° or 92° 10′ 21″ west
Population
43,100
Elevation
630 feet (192 metres)
IATA airport code
JEF
United Nations Location Code
US JEF
Open location code
86C9HRGH+W2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151757071
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4392388
Wiki­data ID
Q28180
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Jefferson City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jefferson City”
  • Albanian: “Jefferson City”
  • Albanian: “Xheferson Citi”
  • Arabic: “جفرسون سيتي”
  • Arabic: “جيفرسون سيتي”
  • Arabic: “جيفرسون”
  • Aragonese: “Jefferson City”
  • Armenian: “Ջեֆերսոն Սիթի”
  • Asturian: “Jefferson City”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cefferson-Siti”
  • Basque: “Jefferson City”
  • Basque: “Jefferson Hiria”
  • Belarusian: “Джэферсан-Сіці”
  • Bengali: “জেফারসন সিটি, মিজুরি”
  • Bengali: “জেফারসন সিটি, মিসৌরি”
  • Bengali: “জেফারসন সিটি”
  • Bislama: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Bislama: “Jefferson City”
  • Bosnian: “Jefferson City”
  • Breton: “Jefferson City”
  • Bulgarian: “Джеферсън Сити”
  • Catalan: “Jefferson City”
  • Cebuano: “Jefferson City”
  • Central Kurdish: “جێفەرسن ستی”
  • Chechen: “Джефферсон-Сити”
  • Chinese: “Jefferson City”
  • Chinese: “傑佛遜城”
  • Chinese: “傑佛遜市”
  • Chinese: “杰斐逊城”
  • Chinese: “謝佛遜城”
  • Cornish: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Cornish: “Jefferson City”
  • Corsican: “Jefferson City”
  • Czech: “Jefferson City”
  • Dagbani: “Jefferson City”
  • Danish: “Jefferson City”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Jefferson City”
  • Dutch: “Jefferson City”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “چيفيرسون سيتى”
  • Esperanto: “Jefferson City”
  • Esperanto: “Jefferson Urbo”
  • Esperanto: “Jeffersonurbo”
  • Estonian: “Jefferson City”
  • Faroese: “Jefferson City”
  • Finnish: “Jefferson City”
  • French: “Jeff City”
  • French: “Jefferson City”
  • Friulian: “Jefferson City”
  • Galician: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Galician: “Jefferson City”
  • Galician: “Jefferson”
  • Georgian: “ჯეფერსონ-სიტი”
  • German: “Jeff City”
  • German: “Jefferson City (Missouri)”
  • German: “Jefferson City”
  • Gilaki: “جفرسن سيتي (ميزؤري)”
  • Gilaki: “جفرسن سيتي”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌰𐌹𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌽 𐍃𐌹𐍄𐌴𐌹”
  • Greek: “Τζέφερσον Σίτι”
  • Gujarati: “જેફરસન શહેર”
  • Haitian: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Haitian: “Jefferson City”
  • Hebrew: “ג’פרסון סיטי”
  • Hebrew: “גפרסון סיטי”
  • Hindi: “जेफर्सन सिटी”
  • Hungarian: “Jefferson City”
  • Icelandic: “Jefferson City”
  • Ido: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Ido: “Jefferson City”
  • Iloko: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Iloko: “Jefferson City”
  • Iloko: “Siudad ti Jefferson, Missouri”
  • Indonesian: “Jefferson City”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Jefferson, Missouri”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Jefferson”
  • Interlingua: “Jefferson City”
  • Interlingue: “Jefferson City”
  • Irish: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Irish: “Jefferson City”
  • Italian: “Jefferson City”
  • Japanese: “ジェファーソン・シティ”
  • Japanese: “ジェファーソンシティ”
  • Kannada: “ಜೆಫರ್ಸನ್ ನಗರ”
  • Kazakh: “Джефферсон Сити”
  • Kazakh: “Джэфферсон Сити”
  • Kirghiz: “Джэфферсон Сити”
  • Kirghiz: “Жефферсон-Сити”
  • Komering: “Kota Jefferson”
  • Korean: “제퍼슨 시”
  • Korean: “제퍼슨 시티”
  • Korean: “제퍼슨시티”
  • Kurdish: “Jefferson City”
  • Ladin: “Jefferson City”
  • Latin: “Ieffersonia”
  • Latin: “Ieffersonopolis”
  • Latvian: “Džefersonsitija”
  • Latvian: “Jefferson City”
  • Ligurian: “Jefferson City”
  • Lithuanian: “Džeferson Sitis”
  • Lithuanian: “Jefferson City”
  • Lombard: “Jefferson City”
  • Macedonian: “Џеферсон Сити”
  • Malagasy: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Malagasy: “Jefferson City”
  • Malay: “Bandar Jefferson, Missouri”
  • Malay: “Jefferson City”
  • Malayalam: “ജാഫേർസൺ സിറ്റി, മിസൌറി”
  • Marathi: “जेफरसन शहर”
  • Marathi: “जेफरसन सिटी”
  • Mazanderani: “جفرسون‌سیتی (میزوری)”
  • Mazanderani: “جفرسون‌سیتی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jefferson City”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جيفيرسون سيتي”
  • Newari: “जेफर्सन सिति, मिजौरी”
  • Newari: “जेफर्सन सिति”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jefferson City”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jefferson City”
  • Norwegian: “Jefferson City”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jefferson City”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gefersūnesburh”
  • Ossetian: “Джефферсон-Сити”
  • Pali: “जेफर्सन सिटी”
  • Pampanga: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Pampanga: “Jefferson City”
  • Persian: “جفرسون سیتی”
  • Persian: “جفرسون‌سیتی”
  • Piemontese: “Jefferson City”
  • Polish: “Jefferson City”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Jéferson”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Jefferson”
  • Portuguese: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Portuguese: “Jefferson City”
  • Quechua: “Jefferson City”
  • Romanian: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Romanian: “Jefferson City”
  • Russian: “Джефферсон-Сити”
  • Sanskrit: “जेफ़र्सन् सिटी”
  • Sanskrit: “जेफर्सन्-नगरम्”
  • Sardinian: “Jefferson City”
  • Scots: “Jefferson Ceety, Missouri”
  • Scots: “Jefferson Ceety”
  • Scots: “Jefferson City”
  • Serbian: “Jefferson City”
  • Serbian: “Џеферсон Сити”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jefferson City”
  • Sicilian: “Jefferson City”
  • Sinhala: “ජෙෆර්සන් සිටි”
  • Slovak: “Jefferson City”
  • Slovenian: “Jefferson City”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جفرسون‌ سیتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جفرسون‌سیتی”
  • Spanish: “Jefferson City (Misuri)”
  • Spanish: “Jefferson City”
  • Swahili: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Swahili: “Jefferson City”
  • Swedish: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Swedish: “Jefferson City”
  • Tagalog: “Jefferson City”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Jefferson”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Jefferson, Missouri”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Jefferson”
  • Talysh: “Cefferson-Siti”
  • Talysh: “Čefferson-Siti”
  • Tamil: “ஜெஃபர்சன் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “ஜெபர்சன் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Джефферсон-Сити”
  • Tatar: “Җефферсон-Сити”
  • Telugu: “జెఫర్సన్ నగరం”
  • Thai: “เจฟเฟอร์สันซิตี”
  • Turkish: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Turkish: “Jefferson City”
  • Ukrainian: “Джефферсон-Сіті”
  • Urdu: “جیفرسن سٹی، مسوری”
  • Urdu: “جیفرسن سٹی”
  • Urdu: “جیفرسن شہر، مسوری”
  • Uzbek: “Jefferson City”
  • Venetian: “Jefferson City”
  • Vietnamese: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Vietnamese: “Jefferson City”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Jefferson”
  • Volapük: “Jefferson City”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jefferson City”
  • Welsh: “Dinas Jefferson”
  • Welsh: “Jefferson City, Missouri”
  • Welsh: “Jefferson City”
  • Western Frisian: “Jefferson City”
  • Western Mari: “Джефферсон-Сити”
  • Western Panjabi: “جیفرسن سٹی”
  • Wu Chinese: “杰斐逊城（密苏里州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “杰斐逊城”
  • Yue Chinese: “積佛遜城”

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