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Greater St. Louis

bi-state metropolitan area centered on St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ944269 ↗
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Greater St. Louis is

the 23rd-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States with an MSA population of more than 2.8 million, and a CSA population of almost 3 million. It has the largest metro population in Missouri, and the second-largest in Illinois. Its core city—St. Louis, Missouri—sits in the geographic center of the metro area, on the west bank of the Mississippi River. The river bisects the metro area geographically between Illinois and Missouri, although the latter portion is much more populous. The MSA includes St. Louis County, which is independent of the City of St. Louis; their two populations are generally tabulated separately.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Greater St. Louis” as bi-state metropolitan area centered on St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 108-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Greater, Louis and bi-state can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as bi-state metropolitan area centered on St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Greater St. Louis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.