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POSTAL ABBREVIATION: MO
CAPITAL CITY: Jefferson
City
NICKNAME: The Show Me
State
RESIDENTS ARE CALLED:
Missourians
MOTTO: The Welfare of the
People Shall Be the Supreme Law
SONG: Missouri Waltz
BIRD: Bluebird
INSECT: Honeybee
FLOWER: White Hawthorn
TREE: Flowering Dogwood
LARGEST CITY: St. Louis
HIGHEST POINT: Taum Sauk
Mountain (1,772 ft.)
BECAME A STATE ON: August
10, 1821 (24th state)
# OF US REPRESENTATIVES:
9
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