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  • Land Area:
    (land) 46,907 sq miles
    (water) 1,520 sq miles
    (TOTAL) 48,427 sq miles
  • Land Area: (all states)
  • Horizontal Width: 191 miles from the far southwestern Louisiana border, straight east to the Alabama border
  • Vertical Length: 333 miles from the Gulf Coast, north to the Tennessee border

    Note: Maximum lengths and widths are point-to-point, straight-line measurements from a Mercator map projection, and will vary some using other map projections
  • Bordering States: (4) Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee and Alabama
  • Counties: (82) Map
  • County: (largest by population) Hinds, 250,900
  • Geographic Center: about 9 miles to the WNW of Carthage in Leake County
  • Highest Point: Woodall Mountain, standing at 806 ft.
  • Lowest Point:   Gulf of Mexico, 0 ft.
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • Mean Elevation: 311 ft.
  • Relative Location
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A view from Woodall Mountain, Mississippi
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