Geography & Travel
Louisiana
state, United States
Also known as: Pelican State
Seal of Louisiana
The brown pelican is Louisiana's state bird.
The magnolia is the state flower of Louisiana.
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Geography & Travel
- Capital:
- Baton Rouge
- Population:
- (2020) 4,657,757; (2023 est.) 4,573,749
- Governor:
- Jeffrey Landry (Republican)
- Date Of Admission:
- April 30, 1812
- U.S. Senators:
- Bill Cassidy (Republican)
- John Kennedy (Republican)
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Louisiana, constituent state of the United States of America. It is delineated from its neighbours—Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and Texas to the west—by both natural and man-made boundaries. The Gulf of Mexico lies to the south. The total area of Louisiana includes about 4,600 square miles (12,000 square km) of inland waters. The capital is Baton Rouge. Admitted to the union in 1812 as the 18th state, Louisiana commands a once strategically vital region where the waters of the great Mississippi-Missouri river system, draining the continental interior of North America, flow out into the warm, northward-curving ...(100 of 6224 words)