Individual #Missouri__Show_Me_State__MO  a midwestern state in central United States
  instance of:  American_state
  part of:  Midwest_USA
  part:  Cape_Girardeau  a town in southeast Missouri
  part:  Columbia.Missouri__columbia  a university town in central Missouri
  part:  Hannibal  a town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River; boyhood home of Mark Twain
  part:  Independence  a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail
  part:  Jefferson_City__capital_of_Missouri  capital of the state of Missouri; located in central Missouri on the Missouri river
  part:  Kansas_City.Missouri__kansascity  a city in western Missouri on the Missouri River adjacent to Kansas City, Kansas
  part:  Poplar_Bluff  a town in southeast Missouri
  part:  St._Joseph__Saint_Joseph  a town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express
  part:  Saint_Louis__St._Louis__Gateway_to_the_West  the largest city in Missouri; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century
  part:  Sedalia  a town in east central Missouri
  part:  Springfield.Missouri__springfield  a city of southwestern Missouri
  part:  Osage_River__Osage  a river in Missouri that is a tributary of the Missouri River

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