Justice, Union, Confiance (French) | |||||||
| Capital | Baton Rouge | ||||||
| Largest city | New Orleans | ||||||
| Language Official |
French English | ||||||
| Others | Louisiana Creole | ||||||
| Demonym | Louisianian Louisianais (Cajun or Creole heritage) Luisiano (Spanish descendants during rule of New Spain) | ||||||
| Legislature | Louisianan Congress Louisianan Senate Louisianan House of Representatives | ||||||
| Governor | John Bel Edwards | ||||||
| Area | |||||||
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| - Total | 135,659 km2 52,378 sq mi |
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| Population | 4,684,333 | ||||||
Louisiana or La Louisiane (French) is a state in the Confederate States. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only C.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties, making it one of only four C.S. states not subdivided into counties (the others being Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Sequoyah). The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans. In 2021 Louisiana had a fertility rate of 1.94.
Much of the state's lands were formed from sediment washed down the Mississippi River, leaving enormous deltas and vast areas of coastal marsh and swamp. These contain a rich southern biota; typical examples include birds such as ibises and egrets. There are also many species of tree frogs, and fish such as sturgeon and paddlefish. In more elevated areas, fire is a natural process in the landscape and has produced extensive areas of longleaf pine forest and wet savannas. These support an exceptionally large number of plant species, including many species of terrestrial orchids and carnivorous plants.
Louisiana has a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by a mixture of 18th–century French, Haitian, Spanish, French Canadian, Native American, and African cultures that they are considered to be exceptional in the C.S. Before the American purchase of the territory in 1803, the present–day C.S. state of Louisiana had been both a French colony and for a brief period a Spanish one. In addition, colonists imported numerous African people as slaves in the 18th century. Many came from peoples of the same region of West Africa, thus concentrating their culture. The the Confederate era of construction saw English adopted as an official language alongside French, though the latter remained the first language of many Cajuns. Infact, during the Socialist era, the Confederacy attempted to promote Baton Rouge as "the Francophonic capital of the Socialist World (La Capitale Francophone du Monde Socialiste)."
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