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Mississippi, in the , is often overlooked by travelers, yet those who seek out the many things the state has to offer will not regret it.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Jackson and Biloxi.

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is the capital of the state of Mississippi. While it may not offer much in terms of tourism today, can be used as a stopover for getting to other parts of the state or further.

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is a city in Harrison County, on the of Mississippi. It's well known for its beaches and nine casinos. It is also home to the "Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum", which serves as a museum of the Confederacy.

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is a historic, picturesque town in North Central Mississippi. With its scenic town square, acclaimed restaurants, unique boutiques, oak-shaded neighborhoods, and friendly people, is the model Southern town.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Gulf Coast and Mississippi Capital-River.

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The Mississippi , also known as Mississippi Coast, Mississippi region, Coastal Mississippi, and The Coast, is the area of Mississippi along the at the northern extreme of the Gulf of Mexico.

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The region is in the southwest of Mississippi.

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National Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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The , also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi that lies between the and rivers.

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The are a region in eastern Mississippi.

Mississippi

Latitude of center
32.9715° or 32° 58′ 18″ north
Longitude of center
-89.7349° or 89° 44′ 6″ west
Population
2,940,000
Elevation
361 feet (110 metres)
Abbreviation
“MS”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316968897
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4436296
Wiki­data ID
Q1494
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Mississippi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mississippi”
  • Albanian: “Mississippi”
  • Amharic: “ሚሲሲፒ”
  • Arabic: “مسيسيبي”
  • Aragonese: “Mississippi”
  • Armenian: “Միսսիսիպի”
  • Arpitan: “Mississippi”
  • Asturian: “Mississippi”
  • Atikamekw: “Mississippi”
  • Aymara: “Mississippi suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Missisipi ştatı”
  • Balinese: “Mississippi”
  • Bashkir: “Миссисипи”
  • Basque: “Mississippi”
  • Bavarian: “Mississippi”
  • Belarusian: “Місісіпі”
  • Belarusian: “Місысыпі (штат)”
  • Belarusian: “Місысыпі”
  • Belarusian: “штат Місысыпі”
  • Bengali: “মিসিসিপি”
  • Bhojpuri: “मिसिसिपी”
  • Bishnupriya: “মিসিসিপি”
  • Bislama: “Mississippi”
  • Bosnian: “Mississippi”
  • Breton: “Mississippi”
  • Bulgarian: “Мисисипи”
  • Burmese: “မစ္စစ္စပီပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Mississipi”
  • Cebuano: “Mississippi”
  • Central Bikol: “Mississippi”
  • Central Kurdish: “میسیسیپی”
  • Chavacano: “Mississippi”
  • Chechen: “Миссисипи”
  • Chinese: “Mississippi”
  • Chinese: “密西西比州”
  • Chinese: “默裡狄恩”
  • Chuvash: “Миссисипи”
  • Cornish: “Mississippi”
  • Corsican: “Mississippi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Missisipi”
  • Croatian: “Mississippi”
  • Czech: “Mississippi”
  • Czech: “State of Mississippi”
  • Dagbani: “Mississippi”
  • Danish: “Mississippi”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mississippi”
  • Dutch: “Mississippi”
  • Dutch: “MS”
  • Eastern Mari: “Миссисипи”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسيسيبى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميسيسيبى”
  • Esperanto: “Misisipio”
  • Esperanto: “MS”
  • Estonian: “Mississippi osariik”
  • Ewe: “Mississippi”
  • Faroese: “Mississippi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Mississippi”
  • Finnish: “Mississippi”
  • French: “État du Mississippi”
  • French: “Mississippi”
  • Gagauz: “Mississippi”
  • Galician: “Mississippi”
  • Georgian: “მისისიპის შტატი”
  • German: “Mississippi”
  • Gothic: “𐌼𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌹𐍀𐍀𐌴𐌹”
  • Greek: “Μισισίπι”
  • Greek: “Μισσισίπι”
  • Guarani: “Misisipi”
  • Guarani: “Misisípi”
  • Gujarati: “મિસિસિપી”
  • Haitian: “Misisipi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mississippi”
  • Hausa: “Mississippi”
  • Hawaiian: “Mikikipi”
  • Hebrew: “מיסיסיפי”
  • Hindi: “मिसिसिपी”
  • Hindi: “मिसिसिप्पी”
  • Hungarian: “Mississippi”
  • Icelandic: “Mississippi”
  • Ido: “Mississippi”
  • Igbo: “Mississippi”
  • Iloko: “Mississippi”
  • Inari Sami: “Mississippi”
  • Indonesian: “Mississippi”
  • Interlingua: “Mississippi”
  • Interlingue: “Mississippi”
  • Inuktitut: “ᒦᓰᓰᐲ”
  • Inupiaq: “Misisipi”
  • Inupiaq: “Mississippi”
  • Irish: “Mississippi”
  • Italian: “Mississippi”
  • Japanese: “ミシシッピ州”
  • Javanese: “Mississippi”
  • Kabiyè: “Misisipii”
  • Kabyle: “Mississippi”
  • Kalmyk: “Мисисип”
  • Kannada: “ಮಿಸ್ಸಿಸ್ಸಿಪ್ಪಿ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Миссисипи”
  • Kazakh: “Миссисипи”
  • Kirghiz: “Миссисипи (штат)”
  • Kirghiz: “Миссисипи”
  • Korean: “미시시피 주”
  • Korean: “미시시피”
  • Korean: “미시시피주”
  • Korean: “미씨시피 주”
  • Kurdish: “Mîsîsîpî”
  • Kurdish: “Mississippi”
  • Ladin: “Mississippi”
  • Ladino: “Misisipi”
  • Latin: “Mississippia”
  • Latvian: “Misisipi”
  • Ligurian: “Misciscippi”
  • Limburgan: “Mississippi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Mississippi”
  • Literary Chinese: “密西西比州”
  • Lithuanian: “Misisipė”
  • Lombard: “Mississippi”
  • Low German: “Mississippi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mississippi”
  • Macedonian: “Мисисипи”
  • Maithili: “मिसिसिपी”
  • Malagasy: “Mississippi”
  • Malay: “Mississippi”
  • Malayalam: “മിസിസിപ്പി”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯤꯁꯁꯤꯁꯁꯤꯞꯄꯤ”
  • Manx: “Mississippi”
  • Maori: “Mihihipi”
  • Maori: “Mississippi”
  • Marathi: “मिसिसिपी”
  • Mazanderani: “می‌سی‌سی‌پی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mississippi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mississippi”
  • Mingrelian: “მისისიპიშ შტატი”
  • Mongolian: “Миссисипи”
  • Mongolian: “Миссиссиппи”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ميسيسيپي”
  • Nauru: “Mississippi”
  • Navajo: “Diichiłító Hahoodzo”
  • Neapolitan: “Mississippi”
  • Nepali: “मिसिसिपी”
  • Newari: “मिसिसिपि राज्य”
  • Newari: “मिसिसिपी राज्य”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mississippi”
  • Northern Luri: “می سی سی پی”
  • Northern Sami: “Mississippi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Miss.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mississippi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “MS”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mississippi”
  • Norwegian: “Mississippi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mississipí”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܝܣܝܣܝܦܝ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Micelēalond”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Mississippi”
  • Ossetian: “Миссисипи”
  • Pali: “मिसिसिप्पी”
  • Pampanga: “Mississippi”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਿਸੀਸਿੱਪੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Mississippi”
  • Persian: “ایالت میسیسیپی”
  • Persian: “میسیسیپی”
  • Persian: “می‌سی‌سی‌پی”
  • Picard: “Mississippi (Étot)”
  • Picard: “Mississippi”
  • Piemontese: “Mississippi”
  • Polish: “Missisipi”
  • Polish: “Mississippi”
  • Portuguese: “Mississípi”
  • Portuguese: “Mississippi”
  • Pushto: “میسیسیپی”
  • Quechua: “Mississippi suyu”
  • Romanian: “Mississippi”
  • Romansh: “Mississippi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Миссисипи”
  • Russian: “Миссисипи”
  • Samoan: “Misisipi”
  • Samogitian: “Mėsėsėpė (valstėjė)”
  • Samogitian: “Mėsėsėpė”
  • Sanskrit: “मिसिसिपी”
  • Sardinian: “Mississipi”
  • Sardinian: “Mississippi”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Mississippi”
  • Scots: “Mississippi”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Mississippi”
  • Serbian: “Мисисипи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mississippi”
  • Sicilian: “Mississippi”
  • Silesian: “Mississippi”
  • Sindhi: “مسيسيپي”
  • Sinhala: “මිසිසිපි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mississippi”
  • Slovak: “Mississippi”
  • Slovenian: “Misisipi”
  • Somali: “Mississippi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میسیسیپی ایالتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “میسیسیپی”
  • Spanish: “El Estado de la Hospitalidad”
  • Spanish: “El Estado de Magnolia”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Misisipi”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Mississippi”
  • Spanish: “Misisipi (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Misisipi”
  • Spanish: “Mississippi”
  • Spanish: “MS”
  • Swahili: “Mississippi”
  • Swedish: “Mississippi”
  • Tagalog: “Misisipi”
  • Tagalog: “Mississippi”
  • Tajik: “Миссисипи”
  • Tajik: “Миссисипӣ”
  • Talysh: “Missisipi”
  • Tamil: “மிசிசிப்பி”
  • Tamil: “மிஸ்ஸிஸிஸிப்பி”
  • Tatar: “Миссисипи”
  • Telugu: “మిసిసిపీ రాష్ట్రం”
  • Telugu: “మిసిసిపీ”
  • Thai: “รัฐมิสซิสซิปปี”
  • Tibetan: “མི་སི་སི་ཕི།”
  • Tumbuka: “Mississippi”
  • Turkish: “Miss.”
  • Turkish: “Mississippi eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Mississippi, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Mississippi”
  • Turkish: “MS”
  • Turkish: “State of Mississippi”
  • Turkish: “US-MS”
  • Turkmen: “Missisipi”
  • Uighur: “Misisipi Shitati”
  • Uighur: “Missisipi Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Міссісіпі”
  • Urdu: “مسیسپی”
  • Uzbek: “Mississippi”
  • Venetian: “Mississippi”
  • Vietnamese: “Mississippi”
  • Vlaams: “Mississippi”
  • Vlax Romani: “Mississippi”
  • Volapük: “Mississippi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mississippi”
  • Welsh: “Mississippi”
  • Western Frisian: “Mississippy”
  • Western Mari: “Миссисипи”
  • Western Panjabi: “مسسسپی”
  • Wu Chinese: “密西西比州”
  • Xhosa: “IMisisiphi”
  • Yakut: “Миссиссиппи”
  • Yiddish: “מיסיסיפי”
  • Yoruba: “Ìpínlẹ̀ Mississippi”
  • Yoruba: “Mississippi”
  • Yue Chinese: “密西西比州”
  • Zeeuws: “Mississippi”
  • Zhuang: “Mississippi”
  • “ma Misisipi”
  • “Mėsėsėpė”
  • “Missisìpi”
  • “Mississippi”
  • “US-MS”
  • “मिसिसिपी”

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