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Natchez

Natchez is a city near the southwest corner of the U.S. state of . This historic town is perched on a high bluff above the 100 miles upriver from .
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  • 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, Mississippi”, and “Natchez, MS”
  • Postal codes: 39120-39122
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Mary Basilica, Natchez and Natchez National Historical Park.

Church
Photo: Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Mary Basilica, formerly St. Mary's Cathedral, is a Catholic church in Natchez, Mississippi, and a parish church in the Diocese of Jackson. It was dedicated to the Virgin Mary under the title Our Lady of Sorrows on December 25, 1843.

Park
Photo: Calstanhope, CC BY-SA 4.0.
commemorates the history of Natchez, Mississippi, and is managed by the National Park Service. The park consists of four separate sites: Fort Rosalie is the site of a former fortification from the 18th century, built by the French.

Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vidalia.

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is a city in and the parish seat of , . It is located on the west bank of the , across from Natchez, .

Natchez

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
United Nations Location Code
US HEZ
Open location code
863CHH6W+5P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151640651
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4437982
Wiki­data ID
Q944044
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Natchez” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ناتشيز”
  • Armenian: “Նատչեզ”
  • Basque: “Natchez”
  • Cebuano: “Natchez”
  • Chechen: “Натчез”
  • Chinese: “Natchez”
  • Chinese: “納奇茲”
  • Chinese: “纳奇兹”
  • Czech: “Natchez”
  • Dagbani: “Natchez”
  • Danish: “Natchez”
  • Dutch: “Natchez”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ناتشيز, مسيسيبى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ناتشيز”
  • Finnish: “Natchez”
  • French: “Natchez”
  • Georgian: “ნატჩეზი”
  • German: “Natchez”
  • Gilaki: “ناتشز (ميسيسيپي)”
  • Gilaki: “ناتشز”
  • Greek: “Νάτσεζ”
  • Haitian: “Natchez, Mississippi”
  • Haitian: “Natchez”
  • Hebrew: “נאצ’ז (מיסיסיפי)”
  • Hebrew: “נאצ’ז, מיסיסיפי, ארצות הברית”
  • 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 i Mississippi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Natchez”
  • Norwegian: “Natchez”
  • Persian: “نچیز، میسیسیپی”
  • Persian: “نچیز”
  • Polish: “Natchez”
  • Portuguese: “Natchez”
  • Romanian: “Natchez, Mississippi”
  • Romanian: “Natchez”
  • Russian: “Натчез (Миссисипи)”
  • Russian: “Натчез”
  • Serbian: “Начез”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Natchez, Mississippi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Natchez”
  • Slovak: “Natchez”
  • Slovenian: “Natchez”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نچیز، میسیسیپی”
  • Spanish: “Natchez (Misisipi)”
  • Spanish: “Natchez”
  • Swedish: “Natchez, Mississippi”
  • Swedish: “Natchez”
  • Tatar: “Натчез”
  • Turkish: “Natchez, Mississippi”
  • Turkish: “Natchez”
  • Ukrainian: “Натчез”
  • Urdu: “نچز، مسیسپی”
  • Urdu: “نچز”
  • Uzbek: “Natchez”
  • Uzbek: “Натчез”
  • Vietnamese: “Natchez, Mississippi”
  • Vietnamese: “Natchez”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Natchez, Mississippi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Natchez”
  • Welsh: “Natchez, Mississippi”
  • Welsh: “Natchez”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Natchez”. Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY 3.0.