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MississippiBy Eoghan Stynes

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The capital of Mississippi is Jackson.Mississippi is located in U.S.A

Mississippis official language is English.

The population of Mississippi is 2,984,926estimate in 2012.

The highest point in Mississippi is WoodallMountain and the lowest point is the Gulf of

Mexico Sea Level.

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Mississippi is boarded on the north byTennessee on the east by Alabama and on thesouth by Louisiana. Mississippi is entirelycomposed of lowlands. The capital of the

state is located south of the Yazoo River. Thelowest point of Mississippi the gulf of Mexico.

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The highest mountain in Mississippi isMt.Woodall. It measures to 807 feet or 246meters. Woodall mountain used to be calledYow hill. It was the scene of fighting in theAmerican civil war. Mt.Woodall was namedafter Zephaniah Woodall. ZephaniahWoodall bought the mountain and the land

surrounding it 1884.What do you know about Mt.Woodall

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Jackson is the capital of Mississippi. Thepopulation of Jackson is 173,514 in the 2010census. The slogan for the city is city withsoul. Jackson lies in a region where there is a

lot of storms. Thunder is heard on roughly 70days a year! One of the severe tornados wason March the 3rd 1966. It killed 17 people.The city was named after Andrew Jackson

who was the 7

th

president of America. He wasborn on March the 15th 1767 and died onJune the 8th 1845 he was aged 78.

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Air Mississippi has 2 airports. One in Jackson ( The

capital of Mississippi and the other in Gulfport.

Road

In Early 2011 Mississippi was ranked as the thirdbottom worst state in the American State LitterScoreboard. The other two of the bottom stateswere Louisiana and Kentucky. The state suffers

poor effectiveness and public space cleanliness.Mississippi is served by nine interstate highways.

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The Mississippi river is the largest drainage systemin North America, the forth largest in the world.The Mississippi measures 2,530 miles or inkilometres 4,070 km. The Mississippi river either

borders or cuts through the states of Minnesota,Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky,Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.The Mississippi river is divided into the upper themiddle and the lower Mississippi.

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There are 5 major industries in Mississippi. The 5major industries are Casinos, Manufacturing(chemicals, clothing , electrical equipment), mining,fishing (mainly for shrimp), farming ( cotton,

soybeans corn and rice.)

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What is the capitial of Mississippi? How many airports do Mississippi have?

Name 2 major industries in Mississippi?

What borders Mississippi? Mississippi River is the largest drainage

system in North America but what is it in theworld. Example (1st,2nd etc)

Who is Andrew Jackson Who was Mt.Woodall named after?

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I really enjoyed learning about Mississippi. Ireally want to go there and climb Mt.Jackson.

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