Natchez
Natchez is a city near the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Mississippi. This historic town is perched on a high bluff above the Mississippi River 100 miles upriver from New Orleans.
- Type: Town with 17,200 residents
- Description: county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States
- Also known as: “Fort Panmure”, “Fort Rosalie”, “Naches”, “Natches”, “Natchez (Misisipi)”, “Natchez i Mississippi”, “Natchez, Mississippi”, “Natchez, MS”, “Натчез (Миссисипи)”, “נאצ’ז (מיסיסיפי)”, and “נאצ’ז, מיסיסיפי, ארצות הברית”
- Postal codes: 39120-39122
- Neighbors: Vicksburg
Places of Interest
Highlights: St. Mary Basilica, Natchez and Natchez National Historical Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vidalia.
Natchez
- Categories: county seat, city in the United States, and locality
- Location: Adams, Mississippi Capital-River, Mississippi, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.5604° or 31° 33′ 38″ north
Longitude
-91.4032° or 91° 24′ 11″ west
Population
17,200
Elevation
217 feet (66 metres)
IATA airport code
HEZ
UN/LOCODE
US HEZ
Open location code
863CHH6W+5P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Natchez” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ناتشيز”
- Armenian: “Նատչեզ”
- Basque: “Natchez”
- Catalan: “Natchez”
- Cebuano: “Natchez”
- Chechen: “Натчез”
- Chinese: “納奇茲”
- Chinese: “纳奇兹”
- Czech: “Natchez”
- Dagbani: “Natchez”
- Danish: “Natchez”
- Dutch: “Natchez”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ناتشيز, مسيسيبى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ناتشيز”
- Esperanto: “Natchez”
- Finnish: “Natchez”
- French: “Natchez”
- Georgian: “ნატჩეზი”
- German: “Natchez”
- Gilaki: “ناتشز (ميسيسيپي)”
- Gilaki: “ناتشز”
- Greek: “Νάτσεζ”
- Haitian: “Natchez, Mississippi”
- Haitian: “Natchez”
- Hebrew: “נאצ’ז”
- Hungarian: “Natchez”
- Ido: “Natchez, Mississippi”
- Ido: “Natchez”
- Interlingua: “Natchez”
- Irish: “Natchez”
- Italian: “Natchez”
- Japanese: “ナチェズ”
- Kazakh: “Natçez”
- Kazakh: “Натчез”
- Kazakh: “ناتتشەز”
- Kirghiz: “Натчез”
- Korean: “나체즈”
- Ladin: “Natchez”
- Malagasy: “Natchez, Mississippi”
- Malagasy: “Natchez”
- Mazanderani: “نچیز (میسیسیپی)”
- Mazanderani: “نچیز”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Natchez”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Natchez”
- Norwegian: “Natchez”
- Persian: “نچیز، میسیسیپی”
- Persian: “نچیز”
- Polish: “Natchez”
- Portuguese: “Natchez”
- Romanian: “Natchez, Mississippi”
- Romanian: “Natchez”
- Russian: “Натчез”
- Serbian: “Начез”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Natchez, Mississippi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Natchez”
- Slovak: “Natchez”
- Slovenian: “Natchez”
- South Azerbaijani: “نچیز، میسیسیپی”
- Spanish: “Natchez”
- Swedish: “Natchez, Mississippi”
- Swedish: “Natchez”
- Tatar: “Натчез”
- Turkish: “Natchez, Mississippi”
- Turkish: “Natchez”
- Ukrainian: “Натчез”
- Urdu: “نچز، مسیسپی”
- Urdu: “نچز”
- Uzbek: “Natchez”
- Vietnamese: “Natchez, Mississippi”
- Vietnamese: “Natchez”
- Waray (Philippines): “Natchez, Mississippi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Natchez”
- Welsh: “Natchez, Mississippi”
- Welsh: “Natchez”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Natchez Historic District and Hawthorne.
Mississippi Capital-River: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Jackson and Vicksburg.
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