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About Mississippi... Mississippi State is located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along the western boundary, and takes its name from the Ojibwa word misi-ziibi ( "Great River"). The State is heavily forested outside the Mississippi Delta area. His catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States. State symbol is the magnolia tree.

Mississippi is bordered on the north, Tennessee, east of Alabama, in southern Louisiana and a narrow coast on the Gulf of Mexico, and in the west, across the Mississippi River, by Louisiana and Arkansas. Major rivers in Mississippi, in addition to its namesake include the Big Black River, pearl river, Yazoo, the Pascagoula, and Tombigbee. Major lakes include Ross Barnett reservoir, Arkabutla Lake, Sardis Lake and Grenada Lake.

Mississippi State entirely composed of lowlands, the highest point is Woodall Mountain, in the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains, only 806 feet above sea level. The lowest point is sea level in the bay coast. Average elevation in the state is 300 feet above sea level.

Most of Mississippi is part of the East Gulf Coastal Plain. Coastal Plain is generally composed of low hills, such as the Pine Hills in the south and the north Central Hills. The Pontotoc Ridge and the Fall Line Hills in the northeast have somewhat higher elevations. Yellow-brown loess soil is in the western parts of the country. On the northeast is the area of fertile black earth that extends to the Alabama black belt.




Mississippi Facts
   Capital : Jackson > Find Lodging
   Population : 2,921,088
   Nick Name : Magnolia State
   Motto : Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)
   Official Website : http://www.visitmississippi.org/

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Popular Attractions
Rubinesque- Inc - Diamondhead, MS
Delta State University - Archives Museum - Cleveland, MS
Rodgers Jimmie Museum - Meridian, MS
Jackson City - Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center- Human and Cultur - Jackson, MS
Fire Department-Jackson - Fire Museum - Jackson, MS
Amory City - Museum - Amory, MS
Scott Aquarium - Biloxi, MS
Beauvoir-Jefferson Davis Shrine - Biloxi, MS
Seafood Industry Museum - Biloxi, MS
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Reed House - Biloxi, MS
Alice Moseley Folk Art and Antique Museum - Bay Saint Louis, MS
Mississippi Sound Historical Museum - Gulfport, MS
Walter Anderson Museum of Art - Ocean Springs, MS
Doll House - Ocean Springs, MS
Lynn Meadows Discovery Center - Gulfport, MS

National Parks
Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site
Gulf Islands National Seashore
Tupelo National Battlefield
Vicksburg National Cemetery
Vicksburg National Military Park
Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail

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Regions of Mississippi
Smith Adams Jefferson Davis Harrison Perry Wilkinson
Copiah Marshall Tippah Bolivar Lauderdale Itawamba
Rankin George Noxubee Warren Claiborne Lincoln
Stone Alcorn Jones Hinds Pike Winston
Covington Monroe Tishomingo Calhoun Lawrence Jackson
Scott Greene Oktibbeha Washington Clarke Lowndes
Sunflower Amite Kemper Holmes Pontotoc Yalobusha
DeSoto Montgomery Tunica Carroll Leake Jasper
Sharkey Grenada Panola Wayne Clay Madison
Tallahatchie Attala Lafayette Humphreys Prentiss Yazoo
Forrest Neshoba Union Chickasaw Lee Jefferson
Simpson Hancock Pearl River Webster Coahoma Marion
Tate Benton Lamar Issaquena Quitman Franklin
Newton Walthall Choctaw Leflore

Cities of Mississippi
Abbeville Aberdeen Ackerman Algoma Alligator Amory
Anguilla Arcola Arkabutla Artesia Ashland Avon
Bailey Baldwyn Banner Bassfield Batesville Bay Saint Louis
Bay Springs Beaumont Becker Belden Belen Bellefontaine
Belmont Belzoni Benoit Benton Bentonia Beulah
Big Creek Biloxi Blue Mountain Blue Springs Bogue Chitto Bolton
Booneville Boyle Brandon Braxton Brookhaven Brooklyn
Brooksville Bruce Buckatunna Bude Burnsville Byhalia
Byram Caledonia Calhoun City Camden Canton Carriere
Carrollton Carson Carthage Cary Cascilla Cedarbluff
Centreville Charleston Chatawa Chatham Chunky Clara
Clarksdale Cleveland Clinton Coahoma Coffeeville Coila
Coldwater Collins Collinsville Columbia Columbus Como
Conehatta Corinth Courtland Crawford Crenshaw Crosby
Crowder Cruger Crystal Springs D Lo Daleville Darling
De Kalb Decatur Delta City Dennis Derma Diamondhead
Diberville Doddsville Drew Dublin Duck Hill Dumas
Duncan Dundee Durant Eastabuchie Ecru Edwards
Elliott Ellisville Enid Enterprise Escatawpa Ethel
Etta Eupora Falcon Falkner Farrell Fayette
Fernwood Flora Florence Flowood Forest Foxworth
French Camp Friars Point Fulton Gallman Gattman Gautier
Georgetown Glen Glen Allan Glendora Gloster Golden
Goodman Gore Springs Grace Greenville Greenwood Greenwood Springs
Grenada Gulfport Gunnison Guntown Hamilton Harperville
Harriston Harrisville Hattiesburg Hazlehurst Heidelberg Hermanville
Hernando Hickory Hickory Flat Hillsboro Holcomb Hollandale
Holly Bluff Holly Ridge Holly Springs Horn Lake Houlka Houston
Hurley Independence Indianola Inverness Isola Itta Bena
Iuka Jackson Jayess Jonestown Kilmichael Kiln
Kokomo Kosciusko Lake Lake Cormorant Lakeshore Lamar
Lambert Lauderdale Laurel Lawrence Leakesville Leland
Lena Lexington Liberty Little Rock Long Beach Lorman
Louin Louise Louisville Lucedale Ludlow Lula
Lumberton Lyon Maben Macon Madden Madison
Magee Magnolia Mantachie Mantee Marietta Marion
Marks Mathiston Mayersville Mayhew Mc Adams Mc Call Creek
Mc Carley Mc Cool Mc Henry Mc Lain Mc Neill McComb
Meadville Mendenhall Meridian Merigold Metcalfe Michigan City
Midnight Minter City Mississippi State Mize Money Monticello
Montpelier Mooreville Moorhead Morgan City Morton Moselle
Moss Moss Point Mound Bayou Mount Olive Mount Pleasant Myrtle
Natchez Neely Nesbit Nettleton New Albany New Augusta
New Site Newhebron Newton Nicholson North Carrollton Noxapater
Oak Vale Oakland Ocean Springs Okolona Olive Branch Osyka
Ovett Oxford Pace Pachuta Panther Burn Parchman
Paris Pascagoula Pass Christian Pattison Paulding Pearl
Pearlington Pelahatchie Perkinston Petal Pheba Philadelphia
Philipp Picayune Pickens Piney Woods Pinola Pittsboro
Plantersville Pocahontas Pontotoc Pope Poplarville Port Gibson
Porterville Potts Camp Prairie Prentiss Preston Puckett
Pulaski Purvis Quitman Raleigh Randolph Raymond
Red Banks Redwood Rena Lara Richland Richton Ridgeland
Rienzi Ripley Robinsonville Rolling Fork Rome Rose Hill
Rosedale Roxie Ruleville Ruth Sallis Saltillo
Sandersville Sandhill Sandy Hook Sarah Sardis Satartia
Saucier Schlater Scobey Scooba Scott Sebastopol
Seminary Senatobia Shannon Sharon Shaw Shelby
Sherard Sherman Shubuta Shuqualak Sibley Sidon
Silver City Silver Creek Slate Spring Sledge Smithdale Smithville
Sontag Soso Southaven Star Starkville State Line
Steens Stennis Space Center Stewart Stoneville Stonewall Stringer
Sturgis Summit Sumner Sumrall Sunflower Swan Lake
Swiftown Taylor Taylorsville Tchula Terry Thaxton
Thomastown Tie Plant Tillatoba Tinsley Tiplersville Tippo
Tishomingo Toccopola Toomsuba Tougaloo Trebloc Tremont
Tula Tunica Tupelo Tutwiler Tylertown Union
Union Church University Utica Vaiden Valley Park Van Vleet
Vance Vancleave Vardaman Vaughan Verona Vicksburg
Victoria Vossburg Walls Walnut Walnut Grove Walthall
Washington Water Valley Waterford Waveland Waynesboro Wayside
Webb Weir Wesson West West Point Wheeler
Whitfield Wiggins Winona Winstonville Winterville Woodland
Woodville Yazoo City

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