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is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Mississippi:

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

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U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sover ...

located in the

Southern United States The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, or simply the South) is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean ...

, named after the

Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...

which flows along its western boundary. The capital is

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, which is also the state's largest city. The state is heavily forested outside of the

Mississippi Delta The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo ...

area, which had been cleared for

cotton Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor perce ...

cultivation in the 19th century.

General reference

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*** Pronunciation: ** Official name: State of Mississippi ** Abbreviations and name codes *** Postal symbol: MS *** ISO 3166-2 code: US-MS ***

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State * Adjectival:

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: Mississippian

Geography of Mississippi

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of the United States of America * Location **

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* Population of Mississippi: 2,967,297 (2010 U.S. Census) * Area of Mississippi: * Atlas of Mississippi

Places in Mississippi

* Historic places in Mississippi **

National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi. It includes current National Historic Landmarks (NHLs), and also National Park Service areas in Mississippi that overlap. National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi There are 40 Nati ...

National Register of Historic Places listings in Mississippi __NOTOC__ This is a list of properties and districts in Mississippi that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are more than 1,400 sites distributed among all of Mississippi's 82 counties. The locations of National Registe ...

*** Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi * National Natural Landmarks in Mississippi * National parks in Mississippi * State parks in Mississippi

Environment of Mississippi

* Climate of Mississippi * Superfund sites in Mississippi

Natural geographic features of Mississippi

Rivers of Mississippi The list of rivers in Mississippi includes any rivers that flow through part of the State of Mississippi. The major rivers in Mississippi are the Mississippi River, Pearl River, Pascagoula River and the Tombigbee River, along with their main trib ...

Regions of Mississippi

Southern Mississippi The University of Southern Mississippi (Southern Miss or USM) is a Public university, public research university with its main campus located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to a ...

Administrative divisions of Mississippi

* The 82 counties of the state of Mississippi ** Municipalities in Mississippi ***

Cities in Mississippi A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...

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State capital Below is an index of pages containing lists of capital cities. National capitals *List of national capitals * List of national capitals by latitude *List of national capitals by population * List of national capitals by area * List of capital c ...

of Mississippi: **** City nicknames in Mississippi ** Census-designated places in Mississippi

Demography of Mississippi

Demographics of Mississippi

Government and politics of Mississippi

Government of Mississippi The Government of Mississippi is the government of the U.S. state of Mississippi. Power in Mississippi's government is distributed by the state's Constitution between the executive and legislative branches. The state's current governor is Tate Re ...

Form of government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...

: U.S. state government *

United States congressional delegations from Mississippi These are tables of United States Congress, congressional delegations from Mississippi to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. The current dean of the Mississippi delegation is United States House of Represent ...

Mississippi State Capitol The Mississippi State Capitol or the “New Capitol,” has been the seat of the state’s government since it succeeded the old statehouse in 1903. Located in Jackson, it was designated as a Mississippi Landmark in 1986, a National Historic La ...

Elections in Mississippi Elections are held periodically in the US state of Mississippi. US presidential elections are held every 4 years, most recently in 2020. Elections to the House of Representatives are every 2 years, most recently in 2020. Gubernatorial elections ...

Political party strength in Mississippi The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Mississippi: *Governor *Lieutenant Governor * Secretary of State *Attorney General *State Auditor *State Treasurer *Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce *Commissi ...

Branches of the government of Mississippi

Executive branch of the government of Mississippi

Governor of Mississippi A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political r ...

Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi The lieutenant governor of Mississippi is the second-highest ranking executive officer in Mississippi, below the governor of Mississippi. The office of lieutenant governor was established when Mississippi became a state, abolished for a few decade ...

Secretary of State of Mississippi The Mississippi Secretary of State is an officer of Mississippi originally established under the Article IV, §14 of Mississippi Constitution of 1817, and was reestablished under Article V, §133 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890. Several ...

** State Treasurer of Mississippi * State departments **

Mississippi Department of Transportation The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) is the organization in charge of developing and maintaining all state and federal roadways in the U.S. state of Mississippi. In addition to highways, the department also has a limited role in sup ...

Legislative branch of the government of Mississippi

* Mississippi Legislature (

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Upper house An upper house is one of two Debate chamber, chambers of a bicameralism, bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house.''Bicameralism'' (1997) by George Tsebelis The house formally designated as the upper house is usually smalle ...

Mississippi Senate The Mississippi Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Senate, along with the lower Mississippi House of Representatives, convenes at the Mississippi State Capitol ...

Lower house A lower house is one of two Debate chamber, chambers of a Bicameralism, bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has co ...

Mississippi House of Representatives The Mississippi House of Representatives is the lower house of the Mississippi Legislature, the lawmaking body of the U.S. state of Mississippi. According to the state constitution of 1890, it is to comprise no more than 122 members elected fo ...

Judicial branch of the government of Mississippi

Courts of Mississippi *

Supreme Court of Mississippi The Supreme Court of Mississippi is the highest court in the state of Mississippi. It was established in the first constitution of the state following its admission as a State of the Union in 1817 and was known as the High Court of Errors and Appe ...

Law and order in Mississippi

Law of Mississippi * Cannabis in Mississippi *

Capital punishment in Mississippi Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Legal process When the prosecution seeks the death penalty, the sentence is decided by the jury and must be unanimous. If the jury recommends death, it is required to reco ...

** Individuals executed in Mississippi *

Constitution of Mississippi The Constitution of Mississippi is the primary organizing law for the U.S. state of Mississippi delineating the duties, powers, structures, and functions of the state government. Mississippi's original constitution was adopted at a constitut ...

* Crime in Mississippi * Gun laws in Mississippi * Law enforcement in Mississippi ** Law enforcement agencies in Mississippi

Military in Mississippi

Mississippi Air National Guard The Mississippi Air National Guard (MS ANG), commonly known as the Mississippi Air Guard, is the aerial militia of the State of Mississippi, United States of America. It is, along with the Mississippi Army National Guard, an element of the Missis ...

Mississippi Army National Guard The Mississippi Army National Guard is the Army National Guard component of the Mississippi National Guard. It was originally formed in 1798. It is a component of the United States Army and the United States National Guard. It is managed by the ...

History of Mississippi

History of Mississippi The history of the state of Mississippi extends back to thousands of years of indigenous peoples. Evidence of their cultures has been found largely through archeological excavations, as well as existing remains of earthwork mounds built thousands ...

History of Mississippi, by period

* Prehistory of Mississippi **

Indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original people ...

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colony of

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...

, 1565–1763 * French colony of Louisiane, 1699–1763 *

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French and Indian War The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes. At the ...

, 1754–1763 **

Treaty of Paris of 1763 The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain during the S ...

Colony of West Florida south of latitude 32°22′N, 1763–1783 *

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north of latitude 32°22′N, 1763–1783 **

Royal Proclamation of 1763 The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III on 7 October 1763. It followed the Treaty of Paris (1763), which formally ended the Seven Years' War and transferred French territory in North America to Great Britain. The Procla ...

American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...

, April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783 **

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, July 4, 1776 **

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, September 3, 1783 * Territorial claims of

State of Georgia Georgia is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee and North Carolina; to the northeast by South Carolina; to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean; to the south by Florida; and to the west by ...

from 31st parallel north to

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, 1776–1802 *

colony of

Florida Occidental West Florida ( es, Florida Occidental) was a region on the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico that underwent several boundary and sovereignty changes during its history. As its name suggests, it was formed out of the western part of former S ...

, 1783–1821 **

Treaty of San Lorenzo Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed on October 27, 1795 by the United States and Spain. It defined the border between the United States and Spanish Florida, and guaranteed the United S ...

of 1795 ** Republic of West Florida, 1810 *

Territory of Mississippi The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 7, 1798, until December 10, 1817, when the western half of the territory was admitted to the United States, Union as the History o ...

, 1798–1817 **

War of 1812 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It bega ...

, June 18, 1812 – March 23, 1815 ***

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unilaterally annexes

Mobile District The Mobile District was an administrative division of the Spanish colony of West Florida, which was claimed by the short-lived Republic of West Florida, established on September 23, 1810. Reuben Kemper led a small force in an attempt to capture M ...

, 1812 ***

Treaty of Ghent The Treaty of Ghent () was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom. It took effect in February 1815. Both sides signed it on December 24, 1814, in the city of Ghent, United Netherlands (now in ...

, December 24, 1814 **

Creek War The Creek War (1813–1814), also known as the Red Stick War and the Creek Civil War, was a regional war between opposing Indigenous American Creek factions, European empires and the United States, taking place largely in modern-day Alabama ...

, 1813–1814 * State of Mississippi becomes 20th State admitted to the

on December 10, 1817 **

First Seminole War The Seminole Wars (also known as the Florida Wars) were three related military conflicts in Florida between the United States and the Seminole, citizens of a Native American nation which formed in the region during the early 1700s. Hostilities ...

, 1817–1818 **

Adams–Onís Treaty The Adams–Onís Treaty () of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty,Weeks, p.168. was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined t ...

of 1819 **

Trail of Tears The Trail of Tears was an ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. As part of the Indian removal, members of the Cherokee, ...

, 1830–1838 **

Mexican–American War The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the (''United States intervention in Mexico''), was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1 ...

, April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848 ***Second state to declare secession from the United States on January 9, 1861 ***Founding state of the

Confederate States of America The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States or the Confederacy was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865. The Confeder ...

on February 8, 1861 **

American Civil War The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...

, April 12, 1861 – May 13, 1865 ***

Mississippi in the American Civil War Mississippi was the second southern state to declare its secession from the United States, doing so on January 9, 1861. It joined with six other southern states to form the Confederacy on February 4, 1861. Mississippi's location along the le ...

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Siege of Corinth The siege of Corinth (also known as the first Battle of Corinth) was an American Civil War engagement lasting from April 29 to May 30, 1862, in Corinth, Mississippi. A collection of Union forces under the overall command of Major General Henry ...

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Siege of Vicksburg The siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Missis ...

, May 18 – July 4, 1863 ** Mississippi in Reconstruction, 1865–1870 ****Ninth former

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readmitted to the United States on February 23, 1870

History of Mississippi, by region

* by city ** History of Jackson, Mississippi ** History of Meridian, Mississippi ** History of Oxford, Mississippi * by county

History of Mississippi, by subject

* History of the Italians in Mississippi

Culture of Mississippi

Culture of Mississippi * Museums in Mississippi * Religion in Mississippi **

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mississippi The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mississippi refers to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its members in Mississippi. The first small branch was established in 1842. It has since grown to 22,189 mem ...

Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi The Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi, created in 1826, is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over the entire state of Mississippi. It is located in Province 4 and its cathedral, St. Andrew's Cat ...

Scouting in Mississippi Scouting in Mississippi has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live. Early history (1910-1950) In 1909, Dr. Cran, the Local Episcopal Minister, and Mr ...

* State symbols of Mississippi ** Flag of the State of Mississippi ** Great Seal of the State of Mississippi Seal of Mississippi 2014

The Arts in Mississippi

Music of Mississippi Mississippi is best known as the home of the blues which developed among the freed African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century and beginning 20th century. The Delta blues is the style most closely associated with the state, and includ ...

Sports in Mississippi

Economy and infrastructure of Mississippi

Economy of Mississippi * Communications in Mississippi ** Newspapers in Mississippi **

Radio stations in Mississippi The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Mississippi, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WAKK * W ...

Television stations in Mississippi Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...

* Health care in Mississippi **

Hospitals in Mississippi A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergency ...

* Transportation in Mississippi **

Airports in Mississippi An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...

** Roads in Mississippi ***

Interstate Highways in Mississippi In the U.S. state of Mississippi, Interstate Highways are maintained by the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT). __TOC__ Primary highways Auxiliary highways See also * * References {{reflist Interstate T ...

Education in Mississippi

Education in Mississippi Formal education in Mississippi began in the early 19th century with private schools and academies, a public education system was founded during the Reconstruction era, by the biracial legislature led by the Republican Party. Throughout its histo ...

* Schools in Mississippi **

School districts in Mississippi A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compul ...

*** High schools in Mississippi ** Private schools in Mississippi ** Colleges and universities in Mississippi ***

University of Mississippi The University of Mississippi (byname Ole Miss) is a public research university that is located adjacent to Oxford, Mississippi, and has a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and its largest by enrollment. ...

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Mississippi State University Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a public land-grant research university adjacent to Starkville, Mississippi. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Unive ...

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