Columbia, Missouri

Columbia, United States

Columbia, Missouri shares 111 connections with 1433 other places across 16 topics, with sports as the leading cluster, followed by music, education, and nature. St. Louis and Chicago carry many of the same connections. The University of Missouri Research Reactor Center, the largest research reactor in the United States, links the city to nuclear medicine globally. Devil's Icebox Cave in Rock Bridge State Park is the only natural home of the eyeless flatworm Kenkia glandulosa, grounding Columbia's nature connections in specific endemic cave life.