Missouri

Missouri (nicknamed the "Show Me State") is a U.S. state that is located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. It is the 21st most extensive and the 18th most populous of the 50 United States. Missouri comprises 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. 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 Missouri Territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821.
Missouri generally mirrors the demographic, economic, and political makeup of America and has long been considered a political bellwether state. It has both Midwestern and Southern cultural influences, reflecting its history as a border state. It is also a transition between the Eastern and Western United States, as St. Louis is often called the "Western-Most Eastern City" and Kansas City the "eastern-most Western city". 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 main center of United States population as of the 2010 Census is at the town of Plato in Texas County, Missouri.
While Walt Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois, he spent most of his childhood and early career within the state of Missouri, with the town of Marceline being a formative part of his childhood and Kansas City being where he would eventually start his film career with the Laugh-O-Gram Studio.
==Films and shows==
*The Adventures of Huck Finn
*Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
*The Brave Little Toaster (mentioned in the song "Worthless")
*Lady and the Tramp
*Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
*The Rescuers Down Under (transmission message to St. Louis)
*Bolt
*The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
*Ernest Scared Stupid (set in the fictional town of Briarville)
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*Guardians of the Galaxy
*Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
*Percy Jackson and the Olympians
*Phineas and Ferb (mentioned)
*Teacher's Pet: The Movie (mentioned)
*Tiger Cruise
*Tom and Huck
==Cities and locations==
*Jefferson City (capital)
*Laugh-O-Gram Studio
*Marceline
*St. Louis
*Kansas City
*Springfield
*Columbia
*Hannibal
==People born in Missouri==
*Hal Ambro
*Edward Asner
*Buddy Baker
*Bob Bergen
*Gregg Berger
*Johnny Yong Bosch
*Sterling K. Brown
*Cedric the Entertainer
*Zach Callison
*Don Cheadle
*Chris Cooper
*Misty Copeland
*Walter Cronkite
*Virginia Davis
*Robbie Daymond
*Brooke Dillman
*Walker Edmiston
*Cliff Edwards
*Friz Freleng
*John Goodman
*Lucas Grabeel
*Robert Guillaume
*James Gunn
*Sean Gunn
*Jon Hamm
*Ray Harris
*Earl Hurd
*Rudolf Ising
*Ub Iwerks
*Nick Jameson
*David Kaufman
*Chuck Keehne
*Ellie Kemper
*Kevin Kline
*David Koechner
*Jenifer Lewis
*Mike MacRae
*Edie McClurg
*Katherine McNamara
*Marvin Miller
*Paul Murry
*Pat Musick
*Timothy Omundson
*Geraldine Page
*Ken Page
*Evan Peters
*Vincent Price
*Leonard Roberts
*Ginger Rogers
*Jacqueline Scott
*Fred Spencer
*Kelly Stables
*Carl Stalling
*Harry Stockwell
*Kathleen Turner
*Mark Twain
*Dick Van Dyke
*Michael Wallis
*Mary Wickes
*Chris Williams
*Jane Wyman
==Trivia==
*The dedication of Disneyland's Tom Sawyer Island in 1956 had active participation from the state of Missouri. Hannibal, the hometown of Mark Twain, sent the year's Tom and Becky Program children to serve as honored guests and ambassadors of the city and state. During the dedication, they read a faux declaration from the Governor of Missouri that the island would be declared an annex of Missouri in the middle of Southern California.
==Gallery==
Flag of Missouri.png|Flag of Missouri
Missouri Mickey Pin.png
Missouri Pin.jpg
Missouri-muppetsmap.jpg|As shown on a map in The Muppets, Missouri's neighboring states to the right are Illinois and "Kentuky"
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