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Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are equivalent to counties, and contains 304 municipalities consisting of four consolidated city-parishes, and 304 cities, towns, and 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 bayou is flanked by Louisiana Highway 1 on the west and Louisiana Highway 308 on the east, and is known as "the longest Main Street in the world." [5] It flows through parts of Ascension, Assumption, and Lafourche parishes. Today, approximately 300,000 Louisiana residents drink water drawn from the bayou. [6]
Port Fourchon is Louisiana’s southernmost port, located on the southern tip of Lafourche Parish, on the Gulf of Mexico. It is a seaport, with significant petroleum industry traffic from offshore Gulf oil platforms and drilling rigs as well as the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port pipeline. Fourchon's primary service markets are domestic deepwater ...
Parish FIPS code [5] Parish Seat [6] Est. [6] Origin Etymology [7] Population [8] Area [6] Map Acadia Parish: 001: Crowley: 1886: from part of St. Landry Parish. From Acadian French. Named for the Acadians who settled the area. 56,489: 658 sq mi (1,704 km 2) Allen Parish: 003: Oberlin: 1912: from part of Calcasieu Parish.
Cities in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana (1 C, 5 P) Cities in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana (1 P) Cities in Bossier Parish, Louisiana (2 C, 2 P)
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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).
Bayou Cane is the commercial district of Terrebonne Parish and Lafourche Parish and is commonly referred to by locals as Houma. In 2014, Forbes magazine ranked Houma-Thibodaux as the eighth-fastest-growing small city in the United States. [2] The metropolitan area is commonly referred to by locals as the Houma–Thibodaux area.