The Ozark Highlands, view from the lookout tower on Taum Sauk Mountain, the highest point in Missouri. The Ozarks cover an area of nearly 122.000 km².
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About Missouri
Where in the United States is Missouri? Location map of the State of Missouri in the US.
Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern United States on the fringes of the Bible Belt.
Missouri was named after the Missouri River, which in turn takes its name from the Missouria, a Native American tribe.
The Show Me State (Missouri’s unofficial nickname) borders a total of eight different US states.
Bordering states are Iowa in the north, Illinois in the east across the Mississippi River, Kentucky in southeast, Tennessee and Arkansas in the south, Oklahoma and Kansas in the west, and Nebraska across the Missouri River in the northwest.
History
The United States acquired the area of Missouri from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Missouri Territory was organized on 4 June 1812 from Louisiana Territory. It included all of the present-day states of Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma and parts of Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
On 2 March 1821, a small part of the Missouri Territory was admitted to the Union as Missouri as the 24th state.
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