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Mississippi Counties
There are 82 counties in Mississippi. |
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Mississippi Counties
Mississippi (/ˌmɪsəˈsɪpi/) is a state located in the Deep South of
the United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River,
which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi ("Great River").
Mississippi is bordered on the north by Tennessee, on the east by Alabama, on the south by Louisiana and a narrow
coast on the Gulf of Mexico, and on the west, across the Mississippi River, by Louisiana and Arkansas.
Find 82 counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi
Former counties of Mississippi:
- Bainbridge (1823-1824) Formed from Covington County and dissolved into Covington.
- Pearl (1872-1878) Formed from Hancock and dissolved into both Hancock and Marion.
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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