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Missouri,
General Information
Nickname: Show Me State
State bird: Bluebird
State flower: Hawthorn Flower
Capital: Jefferson City
Date of admission to the Union: August 10 1821
Population: 5,754,618 (official estimate 2004)
Population density: 31.9 per sq km
2003 total overseas arrivals/US ranking: 90,000/29
Time: Central (GMT - 6). Daylight Saving Time is observed.
The State: Missouri, in the heart of the USA, is a blend of frontier West, gracious South, the sophisticated East and industrial North. The Missouri Valley was a major pioneer route, with St Louis known as ‘The Gateway to the West’. It is bounded by the Mississippi River in the east. Prairies lie north of the Missouri River (the longest in the USA), with great plains to the west, rolling hills in the south and the Southern-style cotton lands to the southeast. The State’s riverboat culture was immortalised by Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi and in his tales of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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