State: Missouri
the City of St. Louis is the 10th largest city in population (between Minneapolis, Minnesota and Wichita, Kansas
St.Louis is the 18th largest in the USA
total population of 2,698,672 ( More than my small country population in Kuwait)
The city has several common nick names :
the "Gateway City", "Gateway to the West", "Baseball City USA", and "Mound City". St. Louis is also sometimes called "St. Louie", "River City", and in a coinage popularized called "The Lou".
It has Mississippi river and 3 others
The city of St. Louis has one of the highest per-capita crime rates in the United States