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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 38,200 residents
- Description: city in and the county seat of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States
- Also known as: “Meridian, Mississippi”, “Meridian, MS”, “Ragsdale City”, and “Sowashee Station”
- Postal codes: 39301-39305, 39307, and 39309
Places of Interest
Highlights include Union Station and Meridian City Hall.
Union Station
Railway station
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Union Station, also called the Meridian Multi-Modal Transportation Center, is an intermodal transportation center in Meridian, Mississippi. The station is located at 1901 Front Street in the Union Station Historic District within the larger Meridian Downtown Historic District, both of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Meridian City Hall
Town hall
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City Hall in Meridian, Mississippi in the United States is located at 601 24th Avenue. Originally designed by architect P.J. Krouse in 1915, the building underwent several renovations during the 1950s that diminished the historic quality of the building.
Anderson Regional Medical Center
Hospital
Baptist Anderson Regional Medical Center is a hospital located in Meridian, Mississippi.
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″ northLongitude
-88.7037° or 88° 42′ 13″ westPopulation
38,200Elevation
344 feet (105 metres)IATA airport code
MEIUnited Nations Location Code
US MEIOpen location code
864H977W+PGOpenStreetMap ID
node 153651853OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4435764Wikidata ID
Q118152
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Satellite Map
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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: “Meridian”
- Chinese: “默爾迪恩”
- Chinese: “默裏迪恩”
- Chinese: “默里迪恩，密西西比州”
- Chinese: “默里迪恩”
- Chinese: “默里迪恩高中”
- Czech: “Meridian”
- Dagbani: “Meridian”
- Danish: “Meridian”
- Dutch: “Meridian”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميريديان”
- Finnish: “Meridian”
- French: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- French: “Meridian”
- Galician: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Galician: “Meridian”
- German: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- 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, Mississippi”
- Portuguese: “Meridian”
- Russian: “Меридиан”
- Serbian: “Меридијан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Meridian, Mississippi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Meridian”
- Silesian: “Meridian”
- Slovak: “Meridian”
- South Azerbaijani: “مریدیان، میسیسیپی”
- Spanish: “Meridian (Misisipí)”
- 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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