Geography & Travel
Tennessee
state, United States
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)
Recent News
Jan. 27, 2024, 12:11 PM ET (AP)
Charges against country singer Chris Young in Nashville bar arrest have been dropped
Jan. 25, 2024, 3:41 PM ET (AP)
Tennessee GOP leaders see no issue with state's voting-rights restoration system
Jan. 23, 2024, 5:50 PM ET (AP)
Bill would revise Tennessee's decades-old law targeting HIV-positive people convicted of sex work
Jan. 23, 2024, 5:14 PM ET (AP)
Memphis, Tennessee, police chief to serve in interim role under new mayor
Jan. 22, 2024, 4:46 PM ET (AP)
Memphis residents endure day 4 of water problems as freezing weather bursts pipes across the South
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)