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Tennessee: flag
flag of Tennessee
Tennessee State Seal
Seal of Tennessee
The mockingbird is the state bird of Tennessee.
The mockingbird is the state bird of Tennessee.
Iris.
Iris.
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Category: Geography & Travel
Capital:
Nashville
Population:
(2020) 6,910,840; (2023 est.) 7,126,489
Governor:
Bill Haslam (Republican)
Date Of Admission:
June 1, 1796
U.S. Senators:
Lamar Alexander (Republican)
Marsha Blackburn (Republican)
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Tennessee, constituent state of the United States of America. It is located in the upper South of the eastern United States and became the 16th state of the union in 1796. The geography of Tennessee is unique. Its extreme breadth of 432 miles (695 km) stretches from the Appalachian Mountain boundary with North Carolina in the east to the Mississippi River borders with Missouri and Arkansas in the west; its narrow width, only 112 miles (180 km), separates its northern neighbours, Kentucky and Virginia, from Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, to the south. Nashville is the capital and Memphis the largest ...(100 of 5413 words)

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