Mississippi Valley
From Usgs
Capital | Jefferson City |
Largest city | Minneapolis |
Regions | States |
Mid West | Minnesota Iowa Missouri |
Gulf Coast | Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi |
Area | |
- Total | 366,493 sq mi 948,628km² |
Population | Ranked 6th |
- Total | 23,715,930 |
Governor | Brian Murphy (R-LA) |
U.S. Senators | |
- Midwest | Andrew Graham (R-MO) Ron Casey (R-MO) |
- Gulf Coast | Red Blanchard (D-LA) Evelyn Breaux (D-LA) |
Abbreviation | MSV |
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The Mississippi Valley is a superregion consisting of the regions of the Midwest and the Gulf Coast. It consists of the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi., and stretches from Canada's southern boarder (at western Ontario) in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the South. It shares a boarder with the superregions of the Heartlands, and Dixie on the east, and Big Sky Country, and the Sunbelt in the west. It is named after the Mississippi River.