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Map of the United States with Tennessee highlighted These directional signs in Crossville, photographed in 1937 by Ben Shahn as part of a New Deal program, helped travelers find their way to other Tennessee cities and towns. Tennessee is a state located in the Southern United States. There are 346 municipalities in the state of Tennessee.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
It is the third-largest pay-TV company, the second-largest cable TV company by subscribers, and the largest home Internet service provider in the United States. In 2023, the company was ranked 51st in the Forbes Global 2000. [10] Comcast is additionally the nation's third-largest home telephone service provider.
Chattanooga (/ ˌ tʃ æ t ə ˈ n uː ɡ ə / CHAT-ə-NOO-gə) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. It is located along the Tennessee River, and borders Georgia to the south. With a population of 181,099 in 2020, [9] it is Tennessee's fourth-most populous city and one of the two principal cities of ...
Tennessee is geographically, culturally, economically, and legally divided into three Grand Divisions: East Tennessee, Middle Tennessee, and West Tennessee. [181] It borders eight other states: Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi on the south, and Arkansas and Missouri on the west.
Shelby County was estimated to have a population of 916,371 in 2022. This is a 0.21% drop from 936,012 in 2017. Thus, while large numbers of people are moving out of the Memphis city limits, many ...
Tennessee is in the Southeastern United States.Most of the state is considered part of the Upland South, and the eastern third is part of Appalachia. [1] Tennessee covers roughly 42,143 square miles (109,150 km 2), of which 926 square miles (2,400 km 2), or 2.2%, is water.
In the Treaty of Tuscaloosa, signed in October 1818 and ratified by Congress on January 7, 1819, the Chickasaw ceded their territory in Western Tennessee to the United States. The city of Memphis was founded less than five months after the U.S. takeover of the territory, on May 22, 1819 (incorporated December 19, 1826), by John Overton, James ...