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Mississippi (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 32 42 46 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 32.7120 decimal degrees |
| Long: 089 39 12 W degrees minutes |
Long: -89.6530 decimal degrees |
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Note: Inhabited by Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Natchez when Spanish and French arrived 16th-17th centuries; went to England after French and Indian War in 1763, but occupied by Spain in American Revolution; was slave state, suffered much damage in Civil War. |
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| Mississippi (preferred,C,V)
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............ | name is derived from an Algonquian word for "big river" |
| MS (C,V,USPS)
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| state (preferred, B) |
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since December 10, 1817 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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| capital is .... |
Jackson .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, United States, Mississippi, Hinds county) [7016129] |
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