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Southeast Missouri State University is located in the center of the city of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The city has a population of approximately 35,000. Located on the Mississippi River, it is 110 miles south of St. Louis, Missouri, and 160 miles north of Memphis, Tennessee. Cape Girardeau is the shopping, medical, and educational center for the southeast area of Missouri.


About Cape Girardeau :


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Cape Girardeau, Missouri, is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the Southern Midwest of the United States. It is about 200 kilometers south of St. Louis, Missouri. In this location, “Cape,” as it is affectionately known, receives plentiful rainfall and a relatively mild temperate climate. Summers are quite warm and humid, while winters generally are cool with more rainfall than snowfall. Some years, Cape gets no snow at all, other years Cape may experience 20 inches of snow during a winter season. Annual average temperature is 57.48F (14.2C). Average winter temperature is 33.17F (.65C) (January), and average summer temperature is 80.00 (26.667C) (July). The average annual rainfall is 45.4 inches (1.1m) and snowfall annual average is 11.00 inches (.28m). Remember that these are averaged over time, and that individual days in summer may get as hot as 103 F (39.44C), and in winter temperatures can be as cold as –10 F (-23.3C), but these don’t happen often, nor do they last for very long.

The city is 22 square miles in area (about 57 square km). Cape has a population of about 35,000 people, and neighboring Jackson, Missouri adds about 15,000 people to the greater Cape Girardeau area.

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