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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/St. Louis, Missouri |
 | | This area includes counties in the states of Missouri and Illinois; it is the 18th largest in the United States with a population of 2,698,672 as of the 2000 census. |
 | | Missouri was nominally a slave state, but its economy did not depend on slavery, and it never seceded from the Union. |
 | | Louis County (1,016,235), the independent City of St. Louis (350,705), the Missouri counties of Saint Charles (320,734), Jefferson (210,397), Franklin (98,234), Lincoln (45,618) and Warren (27,809), and the Illinois counties of Madison (264,350), Saint Clair (259,132), Clinton (36,065), Monroe (30,491) and Jersey (22,320). |
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