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The state's largest metropolitan area is Greater St. Greater Kansas City extends across the state border between Kansas and Missouri and has a population of nearly 2.5 million people. The state capital is Jefferson City, Missouri's largest city is Kansas City. Missouri has a population of 6.1 million people (est. The Capitol building houses the legislative and executive branches of the government of Missouri and a history museum. Poorly rendered image of Missouri State Capitol in Jefferson City. Another wilderness area is the Bell Mountain Wilderness of southern Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest. Missouri's highest point is at Taum Sauk Mountain, a flat ridge at 540 m (1,772 ft), situated in a large parks-and-wilderness area, the Taum Sauk Mountain State Park in the St. The broad Mississippi lowlands along the state's eastern borders are also known as the Mississippi embayment.

The Mississippi Alluvial Plain a lowland in the "Boot Heel" of the state along the Mississippi River. Missouri is known as "The Cave State" with over 6000 recorded caves the majority of these caves are found in the Ozarks. Portions of the Ozark Plateau, the Springfield Plateau, consisting of eroded limestone. Francois Mountains of Missouri, created by volcanic and intrusive activity 1.48 billion years ago. There are two mountain ranges within the Ozarks: the Boston Mountains of Arkansas and the St. The Ozark Plateau, Missouri’s largest geographical region, is a heavily forested highland plateau dissected by rivers, valleys, and streams. The garden is one of the oldest horticultural institutions in the United States.ģ. The Climatron Geodesic Dome at the Missouri Botanical Garden (Shaw's Garden) in St. The tallgrass prairie survives in tiny areas unsuited for agriculture, like in Missouri's Prairie State Park in Barton County. Once a tallgrass prairie, but in the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, settlers transformed what was then known as the "Great American Desert" or "The Inland Sea" into farmland.

The Osage Plains in west-central Missouri are mostly flat plains with a few hills. Today, much of the Central Dissected Till Plains have been converted to productive pastures and cropland. The wide floodplains of the Missouri River and the Mississippi River developed complexes of sandbars, marshes, and wet prairies. The Central Dissected Till Plains are situated north of the Missouri River, high prairie landscapes with savanna and woodland valleys. Missouri can be divided into four geographical regions.ġ. It is the second-largest spring in the Ozarks, with an average discharge of 10 m³ (360 cubic feet) of water per second. Greer Spring within the boundaries of the Mark Twain National Forest in the southeast portion of the Ozark Plateau, in Oregon County, Missouri.