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Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, and Ohio. Iowa has an un-official state fish. Other states have designated
two Official State Fish, distinguishing them with labels such as Warm water, Coldwater, Saltwater or Marine, Sport,
and Commercial.
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Mississippi Geography: The Land
Geography and Landforms of Mississippi Find an overview of Mississippi geography, topography, geographic land area, and major rivers. Access Mississippi almanac furnishing more details on the state geography, climate and weather, elevation, land area, bordering states, and other statistical data.
Mississippi is bordered by Tennessee on the north and the Gulf of Mexico on the south. On the east, Mississippi borders Alabama, and on the west, Arkansas and Louisiana. The highest point in Mississippi is Woodall Mountain, although it can hardly be called a mountain, being only 806 feet above sea level. The major rivers of the state are the Mississippi River, the Big Black River, the Pearl River, and the Yazoo River.
There is a low fertile delta of land between the Yazoo and the Mississippi Rivers, but much of the state is composed of sandy coastal terraces, pine woods, and prairie. Mississippi is divided into four geographic regions.
Mississippi is made up of these Physiographic Areas
East Gulf Coastal Plain
The East Gulf Coastal Plain extends from the Florida Parishes of Louisiana over most of Mississippi, some of western Tennessee and Kentucky, the southwestern 2/3 of Alabama, and the western panhandle of Florida. Its southern boundary is the Gulf of Mexico and its western boundary the drop
into the Mississippi Alluvial Valley. On the north it extends to the highlands of the Interior Low Plateaus and southern Appalachians. To the east, there is an arbitrary break with the South Atlantic Coastal Plain at the Alabama-Georgia border south through Florida along the Apalachicola
River. The flat to rolling topography is broken by numerous streams and river bottoms. Uplands are dominated by pine, originally longleaf and slash in the south and shortleaf mixed with hardwoods in the north. These are fire-maintained systems that give way to loblolly pine and hardwoods in
damper areas and bottomland hardwood forest in extensive lowland drainages.
Mississippi Alluvial Valley 
This area includes the floodplain of the Mississippi River that cuts into the Gulf Coastal Plain, extending north to and including the delta at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers and south toward the Gulf of Mexico. The Alluvial Valley includes most of eastern Louisiana,
eastern Arkansas, northwest Mississippi, small portions of west Tennessee and Kentucky, the bootheel of Missouri, and the Cache River lowlands of Illinois. Nonforested marsh in southern portions of the floodplain is included in the Coastal Prairie physiographic area. Water shaped this land.
The ridges and swales, levees, oxbows, and terraces of the Valley all resulted from meanderings and floods of the Mississippi River. Small changes in elevation determine how wet a site is, the plant community that grows there, and habitat conditions for birds.
Mississippi Landscape and Landforms:
The Gulf Coast
The Coastal Terrace
The Barrier Islands
The Southern Wooded Prairies
The Pine Belt
The Central Prairie
The Delta
The Mississippi-Yazoo River Basin
The Loess Bluffs
The Northern Highlands
The Red Clay Hills
The Flatwoods
The Pontotoc Ridge
The Black Prairie
The Northeastern Hills
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US Geography
General characteristics
Forty-eight of the States are in the single region between Canada and
Mexico; this group is referred to, with varying precision and formality, as the continental or
contiguous United States, and as the Lower 48. Alaska, which is not included in the term contiguous
United States, is at the northwestern end of North America, separated from the Lower 48 by Canada.
The State of Hawaii is an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. The capital city, Washington, District
of Columbia, is a federal district located on land donated by the state of Maryland.
(Virginia had
also donated land, but it was returned in 1847.) The United States also have overseas territories.
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