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Mississippi
Motto: "Virtute et armis" - Latin - "By valor and arms"
Nicknames: "The Magnolia State" - "The Bayou State" - "The Eagle State" - "The Ground-hog State"
Capital: Jackson
Population: 2,881.281 (Estimate by the US Census Bureau 7/01/03); Ranks 31st in US State Population
Size: 340 miles long and 170 miles wide; covers 48,434 square miles - 32nd largest of the 50 states
State Bird: Mockingbird
State Flower: Magnolia
The state of Mississippi is named after the Mississippi River. Though the river was called by many different names, the name Mississippi given to it by the Indians was the name that was used on Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle's map of the area in 1695. To the Chippewa Indians, Mississippi means "large river."
Mississippi became a state on December 10, 1817. It was the 20th state to be admitted to the Union.
People who live in or come from Mississippi are called "Mississippians."
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