Canton
Canton is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Mississippi, United States, and is situated in the northern part of the metropolitan area surrounding the state capital, Jackson.
Photo: Calvin Beale, Public domain.- Type: Town with 12,600 residents
- Description: city in Madison County, Mississippi, USA
- Also known as: “Canton (Misisipi)”, “Canton, Mississippi”, “Canton, MS”, “Cантон”, and “Кантон (Миссисипи)”
- Postal code: 39046
Places of Interest
Highlights: Canton Academy.
Canton Academy
School
Canton Academy is a private school… Canton Academy is situated 1½ miles southeast of Canton.
Canton
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Madison, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.6126° or 32° 36′ 45″ north
Longitude
-90.03675° or 90° 2′ 12″ west
Population
12,600
Elevation
233 feet (71 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US CNP
Open location code
864FJX77+27
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Canton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانتون”
- Azerbaijani: “Kanton”
- Basque: “Canton”
- Catalan: “Canton”
- Cebuano: “Canton (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Mississippi)”
- Cebuano: “Canton”
- Chechen: “Кантон”
- Chinese: “坎頓”
- Chinese: “坎顿”
- Czech: “Canton”
- Danish: “Canton”
- Dutch: “Canton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كانتون”
- French: “Canton”
- German: “Canton”
- Gilaki: “کنتن (ميسيسيپي)”
- Gilaki: “کنتن”
- Greek: “Κάντον”
- Haitian: “Canton, Mississippi”
- Haitian: “Canton”
- Hebrew: “קנטון”
- Hungarian: “Canton”
- Ido: “Canton, Mississippi”
- Ido: “Canton”
- Irish: “Canton”
- Italian: “Canton”
- Japanese: “カントン”
- Kazakh: “Кантон”
- Kirghiz: “Кантон”
- Korean: “캔턴”
- Ladin: “Canton”
- Malagasy: “Canton, Mississippi”
- Malagasy: “Canton”
- Mazanderani: “کانتون (میسیسیپی)”
- Mazanderani: “کانتون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Canton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Canton”
- Norwegian: “Canton”
- Persian: “کانتون”
- Persian: “کنتن”
- Polish: “Canton”
- Portuguese: “Canton”
- Russian: “Кантон”
- Serbian: “Кантон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Canton, Mississippi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Canton”
- Silesian: “Canton (Mississippi)”
- Silesian: “Canton”
- Slovak: “Canton”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانتون، میسیسیپی”
- Spanish: “Canton”
- Swedish: “Canton, Mississippi”
- Swedish: “Canton”
- Tatar: “Кантон”
- Turkish: “Canton, Mississippi”
- Turkish: “Canton”
- Ukrainian: “Кантон”
- Urdu: “کینٹن، مسیسپی”
- Urdu: “کینٹن”
- Uzbek: “Canton”
- Vietnamese: “Canton, Mississippi”
- Vietnamese: “Canton”
- Volapük: “Canton”
- Waray (Philippines): “Canton, Mississippi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Canton”
- Welsh: “Canton, Mississippi”
- Welsh: “Canton”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Maris Town and Mill Town.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Canton Tourism and First Baptist Church Canton.
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Worth a closer look: Jackson and Biloxi.
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