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The U.S. state of Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes (French: paroisses; Spanish: parroquias), making it the only state besides Alaska to call its subdivisions something other than "counties." [a] Louisiana's usage of the term "parish" for a geographic region or local government dates back to the French colonial and Spanish colonial periods ...
Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, 64 cities, 130 towns, and 106 villages. [2] Louisiana's municipalities cover only 7.8% of the state's land mass but are home to 46.4% of its population. [1]
The U.S. state of Louisiana has a total of ten metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs); 37 of Louisiana's sixty-four (64) parishes are classified as metropolitan. [1] According to the 2020 United States census, these parishes had a combined population of 3,918,560 (84.1% of the state's population).
Cameron Parish (French: Paroisse de Cameron) is a parish in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,617. The parish seat is Cameron. [2] Although it is the largest parish by area in Louisiana, it has the second-smallest population in the state, ahead of only Tensas.
In 1912 Calcasieu Parish still comprised an area of more than 3,600 square miles (9,300 km 2), and remained the largest parish in the state by geographic area. In 1912, "Imperial Calcasieu" was further divided with the creation of the three new parishes of Allen , Beauregard , and Jefferson Davis , with a total area of approximately 2,548 ...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Southwest Louisiana (SWLA) is a five-parish area intersecting the Acadiana and Central Louisiana regions in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is composed of the following parishes (counties): Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis. [1] [2] As of 2020, the combined population of the five parish area was 313,951. [3]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the parish has a total area of 866 square miles (2,240 km 2), of which 832 square miles (2,150 km 2) is land and 33 square miles (85 km 2) (3.8%) is water. [6] The parish is bounded on the east by what was just the Red River in the first millennium CE, and is now the Red River and Atchafalaya River.