Meridian
Meridian is a city in Mississippi. It was a titan of commerce of sorts during the Reconstruction era and up through the Great Depression, even after General Tecumseh Sherman had torched it, due to its being a hub to five major rail lines and manufacturing during its golden age.
- Type: City with 38,200 residents
- Description: city in and the county seat of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States
- Also known as: “Meridian (Misisipí)”, “Meridian, Mississippi”, “Meridian, MS”, “Ragsdale City”, “Sowashee Station”, “默裏迪恩”, “默里迪恩，密西西比州”, and “默里迪恩高中”
- Postal codes: 39301-39305, 39307, and 39309
Places of Interest
Highlights: Union Station and Meridian City Hall.
Meridian City Hall
Town hall
Meridian
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Lauderdale, Mississippi Pines, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.3643° or 32° 21′ 52″ north
Longitude
-88.7037° or 88° 42′ 13″ west
Population
38,200
Elevation
344 feet (105 metres)
IATA airport code
MEI
UN/LOCODE
US MEI
Open location code
864H977W+PG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Meridian” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميريديان”
- Aragonese: “Meridian”
- Armenian: “Մերիդիան”
- Asturian: “Meridian”
- Basque: “Meridian”
- Bengali: “মেরিডিয়ান, মিসিসিপি”
- Bengali: “মেরিডিয়ান”
- Bulgarian: “Меридиан”
- Catalan: “Meridian”
- Cebuano: “Meridian (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Mississippi)”
- Cebuano: “Meridian”
- Central Kurdish: “مێریدیان”
- Chechen: “Меридиан”
- Chinese: “默爾迪恩”
- Chinese: “默里迪恩”
- Czech: “Meridian”
- Dagbani: “Meridian”
- Danish: “Meridian”
- Dutch: “Meridian”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميريديان”
- Finnish: “Meridian”
- French: “Meridian”
- Galician: “Meridian”
- German: “Meridian”
- Gilaki: “مریدین”
- Greek: “Μερίντιαν”
- Haitian: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Haitian: “Meridian”
- Hebrew: “מרידיאן, מיסיסיפי”
- Hungarian: “Meridian”
- Ido: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Ido: “Meridian”
- Irish: “Meridian”
- Italian: “Meridian”
- Japanese: “メリディアン”
- Kazakh: “Меридиан”
- Kirghiz: “Меридиан”
- Korean: “머리디언”
- Ladin: “Meridian”
- Lithuanian: “Meridianas”
- Malagasy: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Malagasy: “Meridian”
- Mazanderani: “مریدیان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Meridian”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Meridian”
- Norwegian: “Meridian”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Meridian”
- Ossetian: “Меридиан”
- Persian: “مریدیان، میسیسیپی”
- Persian: “مریدیان”
- Polish: “Meridian”
- Portuguese: “Meridian”
- Romanian: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Russian: “Меридиан”
- Serbian: “Меридијан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Meridian”
- Silesian: “Meridian”
- Slovak: “Meridian”
- South Azerbaijani: “مریدیان، میسیسیپی”
- Spanish: “Meridian”
- Swahili: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Swahili: “Meridian”
- Swedish: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Swedish: “Meridian”
- Tatar: “Меридиан (Миссисипи)”
- Tatar: “Меридиан”
- Turkish: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Turkish: “Meridian”
- Ukrainian: “Мерідіан”
- Urdu: “میریڈیئن، مسیسپی”
- Urdu: “میریڈیئن”
- Uzbek: “Meridian”
- Vietnamese: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Vietnamese: “Meridian”
- Volapük: “Meridian”
- Waray (Philippines): “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Meridian”
- Welsh: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Welsh: “Meridian”
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