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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
- Area Codes: 228 - 601 - 662
- Biographies: Famous Mississippians
- Bird: Mockingbird 50states List
- Border States: Regional List Alabama Arkansas Louisiana Tennessee
- Cam World: Live Web Cams
- Classified Ads: Shop50states Classifieds
- Climate: Mississippi
- Colleges, Universities: 50states List
- Community and Technical Colleges: 50states List
- Community Pages: 50states List
- Constitution: 20th State
- County Profile: Text List 82 Counties
- Courts: Judicial System
- Current Events: News Headlines
- Department of: Education Licensure
- 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.
- Editorial Cartoons: Cartoonists Index
- Fast Facts: 50states List
- 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. Fly this Flag
- Flower: Magnolia Magnolia grandiflora
- Genealogical Resources: Cyndi's List Historical Societies
- Geographic Center: Leake, 9 miles westnorthwest of Carthage
- Governor: David Ronald Musgrove (D)
- Highest Point: Woodall Mtn.; 806 feet, 47th
- Highway Markers: Mississippi Resource Manual
- History: Historical History Channel Civil War
- Largest Cities: Jackson Gulfport Biloxi Hattiesburg Greenville Meridian Tupelo Southaven Vicksburg Pascagoula
- Library: Mississippi
- License Plates: Mississippi
- Lowest Point: Gulf Coast; sea level, 3rd
- Maps: DMOZ Blank Outline Map 50states List
- Media: Radio TV
- Motto: Virtute et armis
- Museums: The Virtual Library
- National Forest: Mississippi
- Newspapers: Mississippi
- Nickname: Magnolia State
- Origin of state's name: Possible based on Chippewa Indian words "mici zibi," loosely meaning great river
- Pen Pals: Penpalworld.com
- Permanent Residents: Find A Grave
- Population: Quick facts 2,844,658; 31st, 12/00
- Public Records: Mississippi
- Real Estate: Ired.com - Mississippi
- Representatives:
- Road Side America: Mississippi
- Soil: Mississippi - Natchez
- Song: Go Mis-sis-sip-pi 50states List
- words and music by: Houston Davis
- Sports: Mississippi Teams
- State Parks: Mississippi
- Symbols: Geobop's Mississippi Symbols
- Topography: Image Low, fertile delta between Yazoo and Mississippi rivers; loess bluffs streching around delta border; sandy gulf coastal terraces followed by piney woods and prairie; rugged high sandy hills in extream northeast, followed by black prairie belt, Pontotoc Ridge, and flatwoods into the North central highlands.
- Tourism: Tour Mississippi
- Tree: Magnolia Magnolia grandiflora Plant a Historic Tree, Today!
- Unclaimed Funds: Mississippi
- Veteran Affairs: Mississippi VA Military Links
- Vital Records: Mississippi
- Weather: Jackson, Jackson International Airport
- Yellow / White Pages:
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