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Tennessee is a state in the known for its rich history, music, and the along its eastern border. Many visitors come to see Elvis Presley's home, Graceland, or the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Nashville and Memphis.

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is the capital of the state of Tennessee. With 716,000 residents in 2022, it is the state's largest city. is sometimes called the "Country Music Capital of the World" or more often "Music City, USA"; however, has done much to escape its country music image and become a regional center of culture and commerce.

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is the second largest city in the state of Tennessee, after . The state rests in the southeastern portion of the United States. , with a population of more than 651,000, is also the county seat for Shelby County.

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, in Knox County, is the third-largest city in Tennessee. It is the home of the University of Tennessee's primary campus and site of the 1982 World's Fair.

Destinations to Discover

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, more often called Middle Tennessee, is a region of Tennessee. Besides the obvious destinations like Nashville, there are some lesser known ones, like Carthage, for instance, the hometown of former Vice-President Al Gore.

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East Tennessee is a region of Tennessee that covers roughly the eastern third of the state, generally locations east of the edge of the Cumberland Plateau.

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, more often known as West Tennessee, is the region of Tennessee west of the Tennessee River. The region also includes all of Hardin County, a rural county on the state's borders with Alabama and Mississippi that is bisected by the Tennessee River.

Tennessee

Latitude of center
35.773° or 35° 46′ 23″ north
Longitude of center
-86.282° or 86° 16′ 55″ west
Population
6,550,000
Elevation
1,066 feet (325 metres)
Abbreviation
“TN”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316994008
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4662168
Wiki­data ID
Q1509
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Tennessee” goes by many names.
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  • Albanian: “Tenesi”
  • Albanian: “Tennessee”
  • Amharic: “ቴነሲ”
  • Arabic: “تينيسي”
  • Aragonese: “Tennessee”
  • Armenian: “Թենեսի”
  • Arpitan: “Tennessee”
  • Asturian: “Tennessee”
  • Aymara: “Tennessee suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tennessi”
  • Balinese: “Ténnessee”
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  • Belarusian: “Тэнесі”
  • Belarusian: “Тэнесі́”
  • Belarusian: “Тэнэсі”
  • Bengali: “টেনেসি”
  • Bhojpuri: “टेनेसी”
  • Bishnupriya: “টেনেসি”
  • Bislama: “Tennessee”
  • Bosnian: “Tennessee”
  • Breton: “Tennessee”
  • Bulgarian: “Тенеси”
  • Burmese: “တင်နက်ဆီပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Tennessee”
  • Cebuano: “Tennessee”
  • Central Bikol: “Tennessee”
  • Central Kurdish: “تێنێسی”
  • Chavacano: “Tennessee”
  • Chechen: “Теннесси”
  • Chinese: “Tennessee”
  • Chinese: “田納西州”
  • Chinese: “田纳西州 / 田納西州”
  • Chinese: “田纳西州”
  • Chuvash: “Теннесси”
  • Cornish: “Tennessi”
  • Corsican: “Tennessee”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tennessi”
  • Croatian: “Tennessee”
  • Czech: “State of Tennessee”
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  • Eastern Mari: “Теннесси”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تينيسى”
  • Esperanto: “La Volontula Ŝtato”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Tenesio”
  • Esperanto: “Tenesio”
  • Esperanto: “TN”
  • Estonian: “Tennessee”
  • Ewe: “Tennessee”
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  • Fiji Hindi: “Tennessee”
  • Finnish: “Tennessee”
  • French: “État du Tennessee”
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  • Galician: “Tennessee”
  • Georgian: “ტენესი”
  • German: “Tennessee”
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  • Gilaki: “تئنسی”
  • Gilaki: “تنسي”
  • Gothic: “𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌴𐌹”
  • Greek: “Τενεσί”
  • Greek: “Τενεσσί”
  • Greek: “Τεννεσσί”
  • Guarani: “Tenesi”
  • Gujarati: “ટેનેસી”
  • Haitian: “Tenèsi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tennessee”
  • Hausa: “Tennessee”
  • Hawaiian: “Kenekī”
  • Hebrew: “טנסי”
  • Hindi: “टेनेसी”
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  • Indonesian: “Tennessee”
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  • Irish: “Tennessee”
  • Italian: “Tennessee”
  • Japanese: “TN”
  • Japanese: “テネシー”
  • Japanese: “テネシー州”
  • Javanese: “Tennessee”
  • Kabiyè: “Tenesii”
  • Kabyle: “Tennessee”
  • Kalmyk: “Теннесси”
  • Kannada: “ಟೆನಸೀ”
  • Kannada: “ಟೆನ್ನೆಸ್ಸೀ”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Теннеси”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Теннесси”
  • Kazakh: “Теннесси”
  • Khmer: “តេណេសស៊ី”
  • Kirghiz: “Теннесси (штат)”
  • Kirghiz: “Теннесси”
  • Korean: “테네시”
  • Korean: “테네시주”
  • Kurdish: “Tennessee”
  • Ladin: “Tennessee”
  • Ladino: “Tennessee”
  • Latin: “Tennesia”
  • Latvian: “Tenesi”
  • Latvian: “Tenesī”
  • Latvian: “Tenesija”
  • Ligurian: “Tennessee”
  • Limburgan: “Tennessee”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Tennessee”
  • Literary Chinese: “田納西州”
  • Lithuanian: “Tenesis”
  • Lombard: “Tennessee”
  • Low German: “Tennessee”
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  • Macedonian: “Тенеси”
  • Maithili: “टेनेसी”
  • Malagasy: “Tennessee”
  • Malay: “Tennessee”
  • Malayalam: “ടെന്നസി”
  • Manipuri: “ꯇꯦꯟꯅꯦꯁꯁꯤ”
  • Manx: “Tennessee”
  • Maori: “Tenere”
  • Maori: “Tennessee”
  • Marathi: “टेनेसी”
  • Mazanderani: “تنسی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tennessee”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tennessee”
  • Mingrelian: “ტენესი”
  • Mongolian: “Теннесси”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “تينيسي”
  • Nauru: “Tennessee”
  • Navajo: “Áhídziil Náálíní Hahoodzo”
  • Neapolitan: “Tennessee”
  • Nepali: “टेनेसी”
  • Newari: “टेनिसी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tennessee”
  • Northern Luri: “تنسی”
  • Northern Sami: “Tennessee”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tenn.”
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  • Norwegian: “Tennessee”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tennessee”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tennesīeg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Tennessee”
  • Ossetian: “Теннесси”
  • Pali: “टेनिसी”
  • Pampanga: “Tennessee”
  • Panjabi: “ਟੈਨੇਸੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Tennessee”
  • Persian: “تنسی”
  • Picard: “Tennessee”
  • Piemontese: “Tenessì”
  • Polish: “Tennessee”
  • Portuguese: “Tenessi”
  • Portuguese: “Tennessee”
  • Pushto: “تینسي”
  • Quechua: “Tennessee suyu”
  • Romanian: “Tennessee”
  • Romansh: “Tennessee”
  • Russia Buriat: “Теннесси”
  • Russian: “Теннесси”
  • Samoan: “Tenesi”
  • Samogitian: “Tenesis”
  • Sanskrit: “टेनेसी”
  • Sardinian: “Tennessee”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Tennessee”
  • Scots: “state o Tennessee”
  • Scots: “Tennessee”
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  • Scottish Gaelic: “Tennessee”
  • Serbian: “Тенеси”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tennessee”
  • Sicilian: “Tennessee”
  • Silesian: “Tennessee”
  • Sindhi: “ٽينيسي”
  • Sinhala: “ටෙනසි”
  • Sinhala: “ටෙන්නෙස්සේ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Tennessee”
  • Slovak: “Tennessee”
  • Slovenian: “Tennessee”
  • Somali: “Tennessee”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تنسی ایالتی”
  • Spanish: “El Estado Voluntario”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Tennessee”
  • Spanish: “Tennessee (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Tennessee”
  • Spanish: “TN”
  • Swahili: “Tennessee”
  • Swedish: “Tennessee”
  • Tagalog: “Tennessee”
  • Tajik: “Теннесси”
  • Tajik: “Теннессӣ”
  • Talysh: “Tennessi”
  • Tamil: “டென்னிசி”
  • Tatar: “Теннесси”
  • Telugu: “టేనస్సీ”
  • Thai: “รัฐเทนเนสซี”
  • Tibetan: “ཐེན་ནེ་སི།”
  • Tumbuka: “Tennessee”
  • Turkish: “State of Tennessee”
  • Turkish: “Tenn.”
  • Turkish: “Tennessee eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Tennessee, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Tennessee”
  • Turkish: “TN”
  • Turkish: “US-TN”
  • Uighur: “Ténnéssi Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Теннессі”
  • Urdu: “ٹینیسی”
  • Uzbek: “Tennessi”
  • Venetian: “Tennessee”
  • Vietnamese: “Tennessee”
  • Vlaams: “Tennessee”
  • Vlax Romani: “Tennessee”
  • Volapük: “Tennessee”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tennessee”
  • Welsh: “Tennessee”
  • Western Armenian: “Թենեսի”
  • Western Frisian: “Tennessee”
  • Western Mari: “Теннесси”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹینیسی”
  • Wu Chinese: “田纳西州”
  • Yakut: “Теннесси”
  • Yiddish: “טענעסי”
  • Yoruba: “Tennessee”
  • Yue Chinese: “田納西州”
  • Zeeuws: “Tennessee”
  • Zhuang: “Tennessee”
  • “ma Tenesi”
  • “Tenesis”
  • “Tennessee”
  • “टेनेसी”

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