Missouri

Missouri is a state in the American . In addition to a network of state parks, Missouri is home to Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis and the Ozark National Scenic Riverways.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include St. Louis and Jefferson City.

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The Gateway City of is the epitome of the modern metropolis. Missouri's second-largest city is vibrant but laid-back, populous but navigable, historic but still relevant.

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is the capital city of Missouri. In 2013, was named America's "Most Beautiful" Small Town by Rand McNally.

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is a major metropolitan area that spreads across the border of Missouri and . It is a city that tends to hide itself from tourists.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Central Missouri and Southwest Missouri.

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Central Region is in and home of the state capital .

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The Southwest region of Missouri is in the .

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The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by . Its fourteen counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri and .

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is the region around , Missouri. It borders along the Mississippi River. Within Missouri, it borders , , and .

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Northwest Region is in Missouri…

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Missouri

Latitude of center
38.7605° or 38° 45′ 38″ north
Longitude of center
-92.5618° or 92° 33′ 42″ west
Population
6,250,000
Elevation
781 feet (238 metres)
Abbreviation
“MO”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 473849775
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4398678
Wiki­data ID
Q1581
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Missouri” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Missouri”
  • Albanian: “Missouri”
  • Albanian: “Mizuri”
  • Amharic: “ሚዙሪ”
  • Arabic: “ميزوري”
  • Aragonese: “Missouri”
  • Armenian: “Միսսուրի”
  • Arpitan: “Missouri”
  • Asturian: “Missouri”
  • Atikamekw: “Missouri”
  • Aymara: “Missouri suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Missuri”
  • Balinese: “Missouri”
  • Bashkir: “Миссури”
  • Basque: “Missouri”
  • Bavarian: “Missouri”
  • Belarusian: “Мізуры”
  • Belarusian: “Місуры”
  • Bengali: “মিসৌরি”
  • Bhojpuri: “मिसौरी”
  • Bishnupriya: “মিসৌরি”
  • Bislama: “Missouri”
  • Bosnian: “Missouri”
  • Breton: “Missouri”
  • Bulgarian: “Мисури”
  • Burmese: “မစ်ဆိုရီပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Missouri”
  • Cebuano: “Missouri”
  • Central Bikol: “Missouri”
  • Central Kurdish: “میزوری”
  • Central Kurdish: “میسووری”
  • Chavacano: “Missouri”
  • Chechen: “Миссури”
  • Cherokee: “ᎻᏑᎵ”
  • Cherokee: “ᏨᎫᎵ”
  • Chinese: “Missouri”
  • Chinese: “密苏里州”
  • Chinese: “密蘇里州”
  • Chuvash: “Миссури”
  • Cornish: “Missouri”
  • Corsican: “Missouri”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Missuri”
  • Croatian: “Missouri”
  • Czech: “Missouri”
  • Czech: “State of Missouri”
  • Dagbani: “Missouri”
  • Danish: “Missouri”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Missouri”
  • Dutch: “Missouri”
  • Dutch: “MO”
  • Eastern Mari: “Миссури”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميزورى”
  • Esperanto: ““Montru al mi”-ŝtato”
  • Esperanto: “federacia subŝtato Misurio”
  • Esperanto: “Misurio”
  • Esperanto: “MO”
  • Estonian: “Missouri osariik”
  • Estonian: “Missouri”
  • Faroese: “Missouri”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Missouri”
  • Finnish: “Missouri”
  • French: “État du Missouri”
  • French: “Missouri”
  • French: “MO”
  • Friulian: “Missouri”
  • Gagauz: “Missouri”
  • Galician: “Missouri”
  • Galician: “Misuri”
  • Georgian: “მისური”
  • Georgian: “მისურის შტატი”
  • German: “Missouri”
  • German: “MO”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌿𐍂𐌴𐌹”
  • Greek: “Μιζούρι”
  • Guarani: “Misuri”
  • Guarani: “Misúri”
  • Gujarati: “મિઝોરી”
  • Haitian: “Misouri”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Missouri”
  • Hausa: “Missouri”
  • Hawaiian: “Mikouli”
  • Hebrew: “מיזורי”
  • Hindi: “मिज़ूरी”
  • Hindi: “मिसूरी”
  • Hindi: “मिसौरी”
  • Hungarian: “Missouri”
  • Icelandic: “Missouri”
  • Ido: “Missouri”
  • Igbo: “Mizurị”
  • Iloko: “Missouri”
  • Inari Sami: “Missouri”
  • Indonesian: “Missouri”
  • Interlingua: “Missouri”
  • Interlingue: “Missouri”
  • Inupiaq: “Missouri”
  • Inupiaq: “Misuri”
  • Irish: “Missouri”
  • Italian: “Missouri”
  • Japanese: “ミズーリ州”
  • Javanese: “Missouri”
  • Kabiyè: “Misuurii”
  • Kabyle: “Missouri”
  • Kalmyk: “Мизуури”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಸೌರಿ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Миссури”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Миссурини штаты”
  • Kashmiri: “مِزوٗری”
  • Kazakh: “Миссури”
  • Kirghiz: “Миссури (штат)”
  • Kirghiz: “Миссури”
  • Komering: “Missouri”
  • Korean: “미주리”
  • Korean: “미주리주”
  • Kurdish: “Missouri”
  • Ladin: “Missouri”
  • Ladino: “Missouri”
  • Ladino: “Misuri”
  • Latin: “Missuria”
  • Latvian: “Misūri”
  • Ligurian: “Missouri”
  • Ligurian: “Missoùri”
  • Limburgan: “Missouri”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Missouri”
  • Literary Chinese: “密蘇里州”
  • Lithuanian: “Misūris”
  • Lombard: “Missouri”
  • Low German: “Missouri”
  • Luxembourgish: “Missouri”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Missouri”
  • Macedonian: “Мисури”
  • Maithili: “मिसौरी”
  • Malagasy: “Misoria”
  • Malagasy: “Missouri”
  • Malay: “Missouri”
  • Malayalam: “മിസോറി”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯤꯁꯁꯧꯔꯤ”
  • Manx: “Missouri”
  • Maori: “Merore”
  • Maori: “Missouri”
  • Marathi: “मिसूरी”
  • Mazanderani: “میزوری”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Missouri”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Missouri”
  • Mingrelian: “მისურიშ შტატი”
  • Mongolian: “Миссури”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ميسوري”
  • Narom: “Missouri”
  • Nauru: “Missouri”
  • Navajo: “Dzígaii Chʼíńlį́ Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “मिजुरी”
  • Nepali: “मिसौरी”
  • Newari: “मिजौरी”
  • Newari: “मिसौरी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Missouri”
  • Northern Luri: “میسوری”
  • Northern Sami: “Missouri”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Missouri”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mo.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “MO”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Missouri”
  • Norwegian: “Missouri”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estat de Missorí”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Missorí”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܝܙܘܪܝ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Misseōra”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Missouri”
  • Oromo: “Missouri”
  • Ossetian: “Миссури”
  • Pali: “मिसौरी”
  • Pampanga: “Missouri”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿਜ਼ੂਰੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Missouri”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Missouri”
  • Persian: “میزوری”
  • Picard: “Missouri (État)”
  • Picard: “Missouri”
  • Piemontese: “Missouri”
  • Polish: “Missouri”
  • Portuguese: “Missouri”
  • Portuguese: “Missúri”
  • Pushto: “میسوري آیالات”
  • Quechua: “Missouri suyu”
  • Romanian: “Missouri”
  • Romansh: “Missouri”
  • Russia Buriat: “Миссури”
  • Russian: “Миссури”
  • Samoan: “Misuri”
  • Samogitian: “Mėsūris”
  • Sanskrit: “मिसूरी”
  • Sardinian: “Missouri”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Missouri”
  • Scots: “Missouri”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Missouri”
  • Serbian: “Мизури”
  • Serbian: “Мисури”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Missouri”
  • Sicilian: “Missouri”
  • Silesian: “Missouri”
  • Sindhi: “مسوري”
  • Sinhala: “මිසුරි”
  • Sinhala: “මිසූරි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Missouri”
  • Slovak: “Missouri”
  • Slovenian: “Misuri”
  • Somali: “Missouri”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میزوری ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میزوری”
  • Spanish: “El estado de Show Me”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Missouri”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Misuri”
  • Spanish: “Missouri”
  • Spanish: “Misuri (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Misuri”
  • Spanish: “Mo.”
  • Spanish: “MO”
  • Swahili: “Missouri”
  • Swedish: “Missouri”
  • Tagalog: “Missouri”
  • Tagalog: “Misuri”
  • Tajik: “Миссури”
  • Tajik: “Миссурӣ”
  • Talysh: “Missuri”
  • Tamil: “மிசூரி”
  • Tatar: “Миссури”
  • Telugu: “మిస్సోరీ”
  • Telugu: “మిస్సౌరీ”
  • Thai: “รัฐมิสซูรี”
  • Tumbuka: “Missouri”
  • Turkish: “Missouri eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Missouri, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Missouri”
  • Turkish: “Mo.”
  • Turkish: “MO”
  • Turkish: “State of Missouri”
  • Turkish: “US-MO”
  • Uighur: “Misori Shitati”
  • Uighur: “Missori Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Міссурі”
  • Urdu: “مسوری”
  • Uzbek: “Missuri”
  • Venetian: “Missouri”
  • Vietnamese: “Missouri”
  • Vietnamese: “Misuri”
  • Vlaams: “Missouri”
  • Vlax Romani: “Missouri”
  • Volapük: “Missouri”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Missouri”
  • Welsh: “Missouri”
  • Western Armenian: “Միզուրի”
  • Western Armenian: “Միսուրի”
  • Western Armenian: “Միսսուրի”
  • Western Frisian: “Missoery”
  • Western Frisian: “Missoury”
  • Western Mari: “Миссури”
  • Western Panjabi: “مسوری”
  • Wu Chinese: “密苏里州”
  • Xhosa: “IMizuri”
  • Yakut: “Миссури”
  • Yiddish: “מיזורי”
  • Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Missouri”
  • Yoruba: “Missouri”
  • Yue Chinese: “密蘇里州”
  • Zeeuws: “Missouri”
  • Zhuang: “Missouri”
  • “ma Misuwi”
  • “Mėsūris”
  • “Missouri”
  • “मिसौरी”

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