Jackson
Jackson is the capital of the state of Mississippi. While it may not offer much in terms of tourism today, Jackson can be used as a stopover for getting to other parts of the state or further.Photo: NatalieMaynor, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 154,000 residents
- Description: capital city of the U.S. state of Mississippi and seat of Hinds County, also located in Madison and Rankin counties
- Also known as: “City of Jackson”, “Jackson, Mississippi”, “Jackson, MS”, and “Le Fleurs Bluff”
- Postal codes: 39201-39207, 39209-39213, 39215-39217, 39225, 39236, 39250, 39269, 39271, 39282-39284, 39286, 39289, and 39296
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mississippi State Capitol and Union Station.
Mississippi State Capitol
Government office
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Mississippi State Capitol or the “New Capitol,” has been the seat of the state’s government since it succeeded the old Mississippi State House in 1903.
Union Station
Railway station
Photo: Augiejv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Union Station is an intermodal transit station in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It is operated by the Jackson Transit System and serves Amtrak's City of New Orleans and later proposed Crescent Texas section rail line, Greyhound Lines intercity buses, and is Jackson's main city bus station.
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
Museum
Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is a museum in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Its mission is to document, exhibit the history of, and educate the public about the American Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. state of Mississippi between 1945 and 1970.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Flowood.
Flowood
Town
Flowood is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 10,202 as of the 2020 census. A suburb of Jackson, Flowood is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is located northeast of the state capital.
Jackson
- Categories: city in the United States, big city, county seat, and locality
- Location: Hinds, Mississippi Capital-River, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.2999° or 32° 17′ 60″ northLongitude
-90.183° or 90° 10′ 59″ westPopulation
154,000Elevation
279 feet (85 metres)IATA airport code
JANUnited Nations Location Code
US JANOpen location code
864F7RX8+WQOpenStreetMap ID
node 151618934OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4431410Wikidata ID
Q28198
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Jackson” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Afrikaans: “Jackson”
- Albanian: “Jackson”
- Amharic: “ጃክሰን፣ ሚሲሲፒ”
- Amharic: “ጃክሰን”
- Arabic: “جاكسون، مسيسيپي”
- Arabic: “جاكسون، ميسيسيبي”
- Arabic: “جاكسون”
- Aragonese: “Jackson”
- Armenian: “Ջեքսոն”
- Asturian: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Asturian: “Jackson”
- Azerbaijani: “Cekson”
- Azerbaijani: “Jackson”
- Basque: “Jackson”
- Belarusian: “Джэксан (Місісіпі)”
- Belarusian: “Джэксан”
- Bengali: “জ্যাকসন, মিসিসিপি”
- Bengali: “জ্যাকসন”
- Bislama: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Bislama: “Jackson”
- Bosnian: “Jackson”
- Breton: “Jackson”
- Bulgarian: “Джаксън”
- Catalan: “Jackson”
- Cebuano: “Jackson”
- Central Kurdish: “جاکسن، میسیسیپی”
- Chechen: “Джексон”
- Chinese: “Jackson”
- Chinese: “傑克遜”
- Chinese: “傑克遜市”
- Chinese: “杰克逊”
- Chinese: “積臣”
- Cornish: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Cornish: “Jackson”
- Corsican: “Jackson”
- Croatian: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Croatian: “Jackson”
- Czech: “Jackson”
- Danish: “Jackson”
- Dimli (individual language): “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Dimli (individual language): “Jackson”
- Dutch: “Jackson”
- Egyptian Arabic: “چاكسون”
- Esperanto: “Jackson”
- Estonian: “Jackson”
- Extremaduran: “Jackson”
- Faroese: “Jackson”
- Finnish: “Jackson”
- French: “Jackson”
- Galician: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Galician: “Jackson”
- Georgian: “ჯექსონი”
- German: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- German: “Jackson, MS”
- German: “Jackson”
- Gilaki: “جکسن”
- Gothic: “𐌳𐌹𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌽”
- Greek: “Τζάκσον, Μισισίπι”
- Greek: “Τζάκσον”
- Gujarati: “જેક્સન”
- Haitian: “Jackson, Misisipi”
- Haitian: “Jackson”
- Hausa: “Jackson”
- Hebrew: “ג’קסון”
- Hebrew: “גקסון”
- Hindi: “जैक्सन”
- Hungarian: “Jackson”
- Icelandic: “Jackson”
- Ido: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Ido: “Jackson”
- Iloko: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Iloko: “Jackson”
- Indonesian: “Jackson (Mississippi)”
- Indonesian: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Indonesian: “Jackson”
- Interlingua: “Jackson”
- Interlingue: “Jackson”
- Inuktitut: “ᔨᐋᒃᓲᓐ”
- Irish: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Irish: “Jackson”
- Italian: “Jackson”
- Japanese: “ジャクソン”
- Javanese: “Jackson”
- Kannada: “ಜಾಕ್ಸನ್”
- Kannada: “ಜ್ಯಾಕ್ಸನ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Jackson”
- Kashmiri: “جیکسن، مِسِسِپی”
- Kashmiri: “جیکسن”
- Kazakh: “Сити оф Джексон”
- Kirghiz: “Жэксон”
- Kirghiz: “Сити оф Джексон”
- Korean: “잭슨”
- Kurdish: “Jackson, Mîsîsîpî”
- Kurdish: “Jackson”
- Ladin: “Jackson”
- Latin: “Jackson”
- Latvian: “Džeksona”
- Ligurian: “Jackson”
- Lithuanian: “Džeksonas”
- Lombard: “Jackson”
- Luxembourgish: “Jackson”
- Macedonian: “Џексон”
- Malagasy: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Malagasy: “Jackson”
- Malay: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Malay: “Jackson”
- Malayalam: “ജാക്സൺ, മിസ്സിസ്സിപ്പി”
- Marathi: “जॅकसन”
- Marathi: “जॅक्सन”
- Mazanderani: “جکسون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jackson”
- Mirandese: “Jackson”
- Moroccan Arabic: “جاكسون”
- Navajo: “Diichiłító”
- Newari: “ज्याक्सन, मिसिसिपि”
- Newari: “ज्याक्सन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jackson”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jackson i Mississippi”
- Norwegian: “Jackson”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chisha Foka”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jackson de Mississipí”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jackson”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Iǣxsūnburg”
- Oromo: “Jackson”
- Ossetian: “Джексон”
- Pali: “ज्याकसन”
- Pampanga: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Pampanga: “Jackson”
- Panjabi: “ਜੈਕਸਨ, ਮਿਸੀਸਿੱਪੀ”
- Panjabi: “ਜੈਕਸਨ”
- Papiamento: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Papiamento: “Jackson”
- Persian: “جکسون، میسیسیپی”
- Persian: “جکسون”
- Piemontese: “Jackson”
- Polish: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Polish: “Jackson, MS”
- Polish: “Jackson”
- Portuguese: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Portuguese: “Jackson, MS”
- Portuguese: “Jackson”
- Pushto: “جکسن”
- Quechua: “Jackson”
- Romanian: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Romanian: “Jackson”
- Russian: “Джексон”
- Russian: “Джэксон”
- Samogitian: “Džeksons”
- Sanskrit: “जाक्सन्”
- Sardinian: “Jackson”
- Scots: “Jackson”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Jackson”
- Serbian: “Џексон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jackson”
- Sicilian: “Jackson”
- Silesian: “Jackson”
- Sinhala: “ජැක්සන්”
- Slovak: “Jackson”
- Slovenian: “Jackson”
- Somali: “Jackson”
- South Azerbaijani: “جکسون، میسیسیپی”
- Spanish: “Jackson (Misisipi)”
- Spanish: “Jackson”
- Swahili: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Swahili: “Jackson”
- Swedish: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Swedish: “Jackson”
- Tagalog: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Tagalog: “Jackson”
- Tajik: “Джексон”
- Talysh: “Čekson”
- Tamil: “ஜாக்சன்”
- Tatar: “Джексон”
- Tatar: “Җәксон”
- Telugu: “జాక్సన్”
- Thai: “แจ็กสัน”
- Turkish: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Turkish: “Jackson”
- Ukrainian: “Джексон”
- Urdu: “جیکسن، مسیسپی”
- Urdu: “جیکسن”
- Uzbek: “Jackson”
- Venetian: “Jackson”
- Vietnamese: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Vietnamese: “Jackson”
- Vlax Romani: “Jackson”
- Volapük: “Jackson”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jackson”
- Welsh: “Jackson, Mississippi”
- Welsh: “Jackson”
- Western Frisian: “Jackson”
- Western Mari: “Джексон”
- Western Panjabi: “جیکسن”
- Wu Chinese: “杰克逊（密西西比州）”
- Wu Chinese: “杰克逊”
- Yue Chinese: “積臣”
- “Džeksons”
- “Jackson”
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