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North Louisiana (French: Louisiane du Nord), also known locally as Sportsman's Paradise, [1] [2] (a name sometimes attributed to the state as a whole) is a region in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The region has two metropolitan areas: Shreveport-Bossier City and Monroe-West Monroe, two micropolitian areas: Ruston micropolitan area and Minden ...
The largest municipality by population in Louisiana in 2020 is New Orleans with 383,997 residents, and the smallest is Mound with 12 residents. [1] The largest municipality by land area is New Orleans, which spans 169.49 sq mi (439.0 km 2), while Napoleonville is the smallest at 0.17 sq mi (0.44 km 2). [7]
Pages in category "Cities in North Louisiana" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
[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 and is connected to ecclesiastical parishes. Thirty-eight parishes are governed by a council called a police jury .
U.S. News Real Estate section released a list of the Best Places to Live in the U.S. in 2025-2026. Find out which Louisiana cities made the list.
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).
Monroe is the ninth-largest city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and is the parish seat and largest city of Ouachita Parish. With a 2020 census-tabulated population of 47,702, [4] it is the principal city of the Monroe metropolitan statistical area, the second-largest metropolitan area in North Louisiana.
Shreveport–Bossier City is the economic and cultural center of Northwest Louisiana and the wider Ark-La-Tex tri-state region. It is also the largest economic metropolitan area in North Louisiana. [23] The area's economic activity is centered in the city of Shreveport, the parish seat of Caddo Parish.