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Louisiana (French: La Louisiane) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties, making it one of only two U.S. states not subdivided into counties (the other being Alaska and its boroughs). The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans, with a population of roughly 383,000 people.

Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by a mixture of 18th century Louisiana French, Dominican Creole, Spanish, French Canadian, Acadian, Native American, and West African cultures that they are considered to be exceptional in the U.S. Before the American purchase of the territory in 1803, the present–day U.S. state of Louisiana had been both a French colony and a Spanish one. In addition, colonists imported various West African peoples as slaves in the 18th century. Many came from peoples of the same region of West Africa, thus concentrating their culture; Filipinos also arrived during colonial Louisiana. In the post–Civil War environment, Anglo Americans increased the pressure for Anglicization, and in 1921, English was for a time made the sole language of instruction in Louisiana schools before a policy of multilingualism was revived in 1974. There has never been an official language in Louisiana, and the state constitution enumerates "the right of the people to preserve, foster, and promote their respective historic, linguistic, and cultural origins."

Based on national averages, Louisiana frequently ranks low among the U.S. in terms of health, education, development, and high in measures of poverty. In 2018, Louisiana was ranked as the least healthy state in the country, with high levels of drug-related deaths. It also has had the highest homicide rate in the United States since at least the 1990s. (Full article...)

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Hurricane Florence was the third of four named tropical cyclones to make landfall on the United States during the 1988 Atlantic hurricane season. The seventh tropical storm and second hurricane of the season, Florence developed on September 7 from an area of convection associated with a dissipating frontal trough in the southern Gulf of Mexico. After initially moving eastward, the storm turned northward and strengthened. Florence reached hurricane status and later peak winds of 80 mph (130 km/h) on September 9 shortly before striking southeastern Louisiana. The storm rapidly weakened over land and dissipated on September 11 over northeastern Texas.

Early in its duration, the storm dropped rainfall across the Yucatán Peninsula. Upon striking Louisiana, Florence produced a moderate storm surge, causing severe beach erosion in some locations. Gusty winds were also reported, causing power outages to over 100,000 people. In Alabama, one man died while trying to secure his boat. Rainfall from the hurricane caused severe river flooding in portions of the Florida Panhandle in an area already severely affected by heavy rainfall; the flooding damaged or destroyed dozens of houses in Santa Rosa County. Throughout its path, damage totaled about $2.9 million (1988 USD, $5.3 million 2008 USD). (Full article...)

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The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team represent Louisiana Tech University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) level. After 12 seasons in the Western Athletic Conference, Louisiana Tech began competing as a member of Conference USA in 2013. Since 1968, the Bulldogs have played their home games at Joe Aillet Stadium. Since its first season in 1901, Louisiana Tech has compiled an all-time record of 641 wins, 487 losses, and 38 ties. In 122 football seasons, the Bulldogs have won 3 Division II national championships, won 25 conference championships, and played in 28 postseason games, including 13 major college bowl games. The Bulldogs are currently coached by Sonny Cumbie. (Full article...)

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Image 1Caesars Superdome and Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. (from Louisiana)
Image 2Louisiana's flag during the American Civil War, in 1861 (from History of Louisiana)
Image 3Modern map of the United States overlapped with territory bought in the Louisiana Purchase (in white) (from History of Louisiana)
Image 4Typical dishes of Louisiana Creole cuisine (from Louisiana)
Image 5Geographic map of Louisiana (from Louisiana)
Image 6Watson Brake, the oldest mound complex in North America (from History of Louisiana)
Image 7Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (from History of Louisiana)
Image 8Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near New Orleans (from Louisiana)
Image 9Map of New France (blue color) in 1750, before the French and Indian War (from Louisiana)
Image 10Poverty Point UNESCO site (from Louisiana)
Image 11French pirate Jean Lafitte, who operated in New Orleans, was born in Port-au-Prince around 1782. (from Louisiana)
Image 12Troyville Earthworks, once the second tallest earthworks in North America (from Louisiana)
Image 13The Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, the tallest state capitol building in the United States (from Louisiana)
Image 14Map of Louisiana (from Louisiana)
Image 15Louisiana's population density (from Louisiana)
Image 16Watson Brake, the oldest mound complex in North America (from Louisiana)
Image 17National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, 1938 (from Louisiana)
Image 18A young African American man in Morganza, 1938 (from Louisiana)
Image 19Cargo ship at the Port of New Orleans (from Louisiana)
Image 20Map of New France (blue color) in 1750, before the French and Indian War (from History of Louisiana)
Image 21French Acadians, who came to be known as Cajuns, settled in southern Louisiana, especially along the banks of its major bayous. (from Louisiana)
Image 22Entrance to the Bald Eagle Nest Trail at South Toledo Bend State Park (from Louisiana)
Image 23'Signing the Ordinance of Secession of Louisiana, January 26, 1861', oil on canvas painting, 1861 (from Louisiana)
Image 24Bogue Chitto State Park (from Louisiana)
Image 25The Louisiana Governor's Mansion (from Louisiana)
Image 26Capture of New Orleans, April 1862, colored lithograph of engraving (from Louisiana)
Image 27View of flooded New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (from Louisiana)
Image 28Free woman of color with mixed-race daughter; late 18th-century collage painting, New Orleans (from Louisiana)
Image 29Spanish Louisiana in 1800 (from History of Louisiana)
Image 30A map showing the geographical extent of the Plaquemine cultural period and some of its major sites. (from History of Louisiana)
Image 31Population density and low elevation coastal zones in the Mississippi River Delta. The Mississippi River Delta is especially vulnerable to sea level rise. (from Louisiana)
Image 32Louisiana Purchase, 1803 (from Louisiana)
Image 33Map of the Fourche Maline and Marksville cultures (from History of Louisiana)
Image 34Tabasco varieties produced in Louisiana (from Louisiana)
Image 35Map showing the geographic extent of the Baytown, Coastal Troyville and Troyville cultures (from History of Louisiana)
Image 36A field of yellow wildflowers in St. Bernard Parish (from Louisiana)
Image 37Louisiana's bilingual state welcome sign, recognizing its French heritage (from Louisiana)
Image 38El Museo de los Isleños (Isleño Museum) in Saint Bernard (from Louisiana)
Image 39Map of Louisiana in 1800 (from Louisiana)
Image 40Dominican Creoles (from Louisiana)
Image 41Map of the Caddoan Mississippian culture and some important sites (from History of Louisiana)
Image 42Honey Island Swamp (from Louisiana)
Image 43Treemap of the popular vote by parish, 2016 presidential election (from Louisiana)
Image 44Aerial view of Louisiana State University's flagship campus (from Louisiana)
Image 45The languages of historic Native American tribes who inhabited what is now Louisiana include: Tunica, Caddo, Natchez, Choctaw, Atakapa, Chitimacha and Houma. (from Louisiana)
Image 46A streetcar on the St. Charles Avenue Line in New Orleans (from Louisiana)
Image 47Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in New Orleans (from Louisiana)
Image 48Mardi Gras celebrations in the Spanish Town section of Baton Rouge (from Louisiana)

Map of parishes in Louisiana by racial plurality, per the 2020 U.S. census

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Image 50Louisiana entrance sign off Interstate 20 in Madison Parish east of Tallulah (from Louisiana)
Image 51A map showing the extent of the Coles Creek cultural period and some important sites (from History of Louisiana)
Image 52Aerial view of Louisiana's wetland habitats (from Louisiana)

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... that the 6th Louisiana Infantry Regiment began with 916 men and ended with 52?
... that President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarded Senator Huey Long of Louisiana as "one of the two most dangerous men in America"?
... that prior to Mary Manhein's forensic-anthropology work in Louisiana, unidentified bones "usually ended up in a box"?
... that a Louisiana radio station went to a satellite-fed music format because it had more control than with its previous "18- and 20-year-old jocks"?
... that when students spoke Vietnamese in a graduation speech in Louisiana, the school district proposed banning all non-English languages?
... that Frank Howard was the oldest sitting member of the Louisiana House of Representatives by 2016?

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Cities	Alexandria Baton Rouge Bossier City Hammond Houma Kenner Lafayette Lake Charles Monroe Natchitoches New Iberia New Orleans Opelousas Ponchatoula Ruston Shreveport Slidell Sulphur
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Protected areas of Louisiana

Federal

National Historical Parks	Cane River Creole Jean Lafitte NHP and Preserve New Orleans Jazz
National Monuments	Poverty Point
National Marine Sanctuary	Flower Garden Banks
National Forests	Kisatchie
National wild and scenic rivers	Saline Bayou
National Wildlife Refuge System	Atchafalaya Bayou Cocodrie Bayou Sauvage Bayou Teche Big Branch Marsh Black Bayou Lake Bogue Chitto Breton Cameron Prairie Cat Island Catahoula D'Arbonne Delta East Cove Grand Cote Handy Brake Lacassine Lake Ophelia Mandalay Red River Shell Keys Sabine Tensas River Upper Ouachita

State

State Parks	Bayou Segnette Bogue Chitto Chemin-A-Haut Chicot Cypremort Point Fairview-Riverside Fontainebleau Grand Isle Hodges Gardens Jimmie Davis Lake Bistineau Lake Bruin Lake Claiborne Lake D-Arbonne Lake Fausse Pointe North Toledo Bend Palmetto Island Poverty Point Reservoir St. Bernard Sam Houston Jones South Toledo Bend Tickfaw
State Historic Sites	Audubon Centenary Fort Jesup Fort Pike Fort St. Jean Baptiste Forts Randolph & Buhlow Locust Grove Longfellow-Evangeline Los Adaes Mansfield Plaquemine Lock Port Hudson Poverty Point Rebel State Rosedown Plantation Winter Quarters
State Preservation Area	Louisiana State Arboretum
State Forests	Alexander Indian Creek
State Wildlife Refuges	Elmer's Island Marsh Island Rockefeller St. Tammany State Terrebonne Barrier Islands White Lake Wetlands
Wildlife management areas	Acadiana Conservation Corridor Atchafalaya Delta Attakapas Barataria Preserve Bayou Macon Bayou Pierre Ben Lilly Conservation Area Ben's Creek Big Colewa Bayou Big Lake Biloxi Bodcau Boeuf Bonnet Carré Spillway Buckhorn Camp Beauregard Catahoula Lake Clear Creek Dewey Wills Elbow Slough Elm Hall Floy Ward McElroy Fort Polk Grassy Lake Hutchinson Creek Indian Bayou Jackson Bienville Joyce Lake Boeuf Lake Ramsey Savannah Little River Loggy Bayou Manchac Marsh Bayou Maurepas Swamp Old River Control Ouachita Pass A Loutre Pearl River Peason Ridge Pointe-aux-Chenes Pomme de Terre Red River Russell Sage Sabine Island Sabine Salvador/Timken Sandy Hollow Sherburne (See: Atchafalaya Delta) J. C. "Sonny" Gilbert Wildlife Management Area Soda Lake Spring Bayou Tangipahoa Parish School Board Thistlethwaite Three Rivers Tunica Hills Union Walnut Hill West Bay

Other

Private	Bird City Paul J. Rainey Wildlife Sanctuary
City	Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center

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