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Map of the United States with Mississippi highlighted. Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Mississippi is the 32nd-most populous state, with 2,949,965 inhabitants and the 31st largest by land area, spanning 46,923.27 square miles (121,530.7 km 2) of land. [1]
[1] 14 counties, all in the southwest, were created before the Mississippi Territory became a state in 1817. [1] The last county created was Humphreys County in 1918. [ 2 ] The Mississippi Constitution governs the creation of new counties, which requires an election of qualified electors to approve of the creation of a new county.
The shared flood plain of the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers. Despite the name, this region is not the delta of the Mississippi River.The shifting river delta at the mouth of the Mississippi on the Gulf Coast lies some 300 miles south of this area in Louisiana, and is referred to as the Mississippi River Delta.
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The Mississippi Gulf Coast consists of many cities that lie directly on the Mississippi Sound. The U. S. Census Bureau divided the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) for the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 2003, which previously consisted of the three coastal counties (Hancock; Harrison; Jackson), into two MSAs that included two additional counties (George; Stone).
Deep South: Various definitions, usually includes Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina. [32] Border States: Includes Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia. These were southern slave states on or near the border of the Confederacy that did not secede or only partially seceded from the U.S. in the 1860s.
2 Population figures only reflect the Mississippi portion (four counties) of the Memphis TN-AR-MS metro area. 3 As of 2020, this area is no longer designated as a metropolitan statistical area. Jackson County is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area, and George County is not included in any metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area.
Sturgis is a town in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. The population was 207 at the 2020 census. Sturgis annually hosts "The Rally", an all-bike motorcycle rally, also known as the Little Sturgis Rally. [2] According to Scott Smith, former mayor of Sturgis, in 2005 around 20,000 visitors attended that year's rally.