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Missouri (see pronunciations)—nicknamed The Show Me State—is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States.
The four largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia.Missouri's capital is Jefferson City. The land that is now Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory. Part of the Territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821.
Missouri's geography is highly varied. The northern part of the state lies in dissected till plains while the southern part lies in the Ozark Mountains (a dissected plateau), with the Missouri River dividing the two. The state lies at the intersection of the three greatest rivers of North America, with the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers near St. Louis, and the confluence of the Ohio River with the Mississippi north of the Bootheel. The starting points of the Pony Express Trail and Oregon Trail were both in Missouri. The mean center of United States population as of the 2010 Census is at the town of Plato in Texas County, Missouri. Centers of Population for the 2010 Census, U.S. Census Bureau
Ethnically, the majority of Missourians are of German descent. The state also has a sizeable population of . Although the French were the original European settlers in the area, their descendants have largely been assimilated into the "Anglo" group and only a small percentage consider themselves part of a French ethnic group. This makes it difficult to assess the actual number of French descendants among the white population.
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