Home > Relocation: Mississippi
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Capital City: Jackson
Location: 32.320N, 090.207W
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- Admission to Statehood: December 10, 1817
- Area: 48434 sq.mi, 32nd Land 46914 sq. mi., 31st Water 1520 sq.mi., 25th Coastline 53 mi., 18th Shoreline 359 mi., 22nd
- Cam World: Live Web Cams
- City Guides: Mississippi City Guides
- Climate: Mississippi
- Constitution: 20th State
- County Profile: Text List 82 Counties
- Courts: Judicial System
- Current Events: Mississippi News Headlines
- Driving: DMV
- Economy:
- Agriculture: Cotton, poultry, cattle, catfish, soybeans, dairy products, rice.
- Industry: Apparel, furniture, lumber and wood products, food processing, electrical machinery, transportation equipment.
- Flag:
The committee to design a State Flag was appointed by legislative action February 7, 1894, and provided that the flag reported by the committee should become the official flag. The committee recommended for the flag "one with width two-thirds of its length; with the union square, in width two-thirds of the width of the flag; the ground of the union to be red and a broad blue saltier thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with thirteen (13) mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding with the number of the original States of the Union; the field to be divided into three bars of equal width, the upper one blue, the center one white, and the lower one extending the whole length of the flag.
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