Outline of Louisiana

• Names
  • Common name: Louisiana
    • Pronunciation: /luˌiːziˈænə/ ^ⓘ, /ˌluːziˈænə/ ^ⓘ
  • State of Louisiana
  • Abbreviations and name codes
    • Postal symbol
      : LA
    • US-LA
    • Internet
      .la.us
  • Nicknames
    • Bayou State (previously used on license plates)
    • Child of the Mississippi
    • Creole State
    • Fisherman's Paradise
    • Holland of America
    • Pelican State
    • Sportsman's Paradise (currently used on license plates)
    • Sugar State
• Adjectival: Louisiana
• Louisianian

• Louisiana is: a
  federal state
  of the United States of America
• Location
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Western Hemisphere
    • Americas
      • North America
        • Anglo America
        • Northern America
          • United States of America
            • Contiguous United States
              • Central United States
                • West South Central States
              • Western United States
              • Southern United States
              • Black Belt
                • Deep South
                  • Gulf Coast of the United States
                • South Central United States
• Population of Louisiana: 4,533,372 (2010 U.S. Census^[1])
• Area of Louisiana
  :
• Atlas of Louisiana

Places in Louisiana

• Historic places in Louisiana
  • National Historic Landmarks in Louisiana
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Louisiana
    • Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Louisiana
• National Natural Landmarks in Louisiana
• National parks in Louisiana
• State parks in Louisiana

Environment of Louisiana

• Climate of Louisiana
• Protected areas in Louisiana
  • State forests of Louisiana
• Superfund sites in Louisiana

Natural geographic features of Louisiana

• Rivers of Louisiana

Regions of Louisiana

• Central Louisiana
• Southwestern Louisiana

Administrative divisions of Louisiana

• The 64 parishes of the state of Louisiana
  • Municipalities in Louisiana
    • Cities in Louisiana
      • State capital of Louisiana:
      • City nicknames in Louisiana
    • Towns in Louisiana
  • Census-designated places in Louisiana

Demography of Louisiana

Demographics of Louisiana

Geology of Louisiana

• Brown Dense oil and gas play
• Louisiana Geological Survey
• Haynesville Shale oil and gas play
• Paleontology in Louisiana

Government and politics of Louisiana

Politics of Louisiana

• Form of government: U.S. state government
• United States congressional delegations from Louisiana
• Louisiana State Capitol
• Elections in Louisiana
• Political party strength in Louisiana

Branches of the government of Louisiana

Executive branch of the government of Louisiana

• Governor of Louisiana
  • Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
  • Secretary of State of Louisiana
• State departments
  • Louisiana Department of Transportation

Legislative branch of the government of Louisiana

• bicameral
  )
  • Louisiana Senate
  • Lower house: Louisiana House of Representatives

Judicial branch of the government of Louisiana

Courts of Louisiana

• Supreme Court of Louisiana

Law and order in Louisiana

Law of Louisiana

• Cannabis in Louisiana
• Capital punishment in Louisiana
  • Individuals executed in Louisiana
• Constitution of Louisiana
• Crime in Louisiana
• Gun laws in Louisiana
• Law enforcement in Louisiana
  • Law enforcement agencies in Louisiana
    • Louisiana State Police
• Same-sex marriage in Louisiana

Military in Louisiana

• Louisiana Air National Guard
• Louisiana Army National Guard

History of Louisiana

History of Louisiana
By year Pre-statehood U.S. Civil War Post-Civil War Topics: African-Americans - Cities - Politics
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History of Louisiana

History of Louisiana, by period

• Poverty Point culture, 2200 - 700 BCE
• Tchefuncte culture, 600 BCE - 200 CE
• Marksville culture, 100 BCE to 400 CE
• Fourche Maline culture, 300 BCE to 800 CE
• Baytown culture, 300 to 700 CE
• Coles Creek culture, 700 - 1200
• Plaquemine culture, 1200–1400
• Caddoan Mississippian culture, 800 - 1600
• Native groups at time of European settlement
• Spanish colony of Florida, 1565–1763
  • Treaty of Paris of 1763
• French colony of Louisiane
  , 1699–1764
  • History of slavery in Louisiana, 1706–1865
  • Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1762
• Spanish colony of Tejas, (1721–1773)-1821
  • Los Adaes, 1721–1773
• British Province of West Florida, 1763–1783
  • Treaty of Paris of 1783
• Francophone) district of Baja Luisiana
  , 1764–1803
  • Rebellion of 1768
  • Third Treaty of San Ildefonso of 1800
• Florida Occidental
  , 1783–1821
  • Republic of West Florida, 1810
• French district of Basse-Louisiane, 1803
  • Louisiana Purchase of 1803
• Unorganized territory of the United States, 1803–1804
• Territory of Orleans, 1804–1812
  • Sabine Free State
    , 1806–1821
  • U.S. unilaterally annexes Florida Parishes, 1810
• History of Louisiana#Incorporation into the United States and antebellum years (1803–1860) since April 30, 1812
  • War of 1812, 1812–1815
    • Battle of New Orleans, 1815
  • Adams-Onis Treaty
    of 1819
  • Louisiana in the American Civil War, 1861–1865
    • Confederate States of America, 1861–1865
  • Louisiana in Reconstruction, 1865–1868
  • Hurricane Katrina, 2005

History of Louisiana, by region

• by city
  • History of New Orleans
    • New Orleans in the American Civil War
  • History of Baton Rouge
  • History of Shreveport
  • History of Metairie, Louisiana
• by parish
  • History of Orleans Parish, Louisiana
    (Orleans Parish has the same boundaries as the city of New Orleans)
  • History of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

History of Louisiana, by subject

• History of slavery in Louisiana

Culture of Louisiana

Culture of Louisiana

• Museums in Louisiana
• Religion in Louisiana
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Louisiana
  • Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana
• Scouting in Louisiana
• State symbols of Louisiana
  • Flag of the State of Louisiana
  • Great Seal of the State of Louisiana

• Music of Louisiana
• Theater in Louisiana

Sports in Louisiana

Economy and infrastructure of Louisiana

• Communications in Louisiana
  • Newspapers in Louisiana
  • Radio stations in Louisiana
  • Television stations in Louisiana
• Health care in Louisiana
  • Hospitals in Louisiana
• Transportation in Louisiana
  • Airports in Louisiana
  • Roads in Louisiana
    • State highways in Louisiana

Education in Louisiana

• Schools in Louisiana
  • School districts in Louisiana
    • High schools in Louisiana
  • Colleges and universities in Louisiana
    • University of Louisiana (disambiguation)
    • Louisiana State University

See also

• Topic overview:
  • Louisiana
  • Index of Louisiana-related articles
• All pages with titles beginning with Louisiana
• All pages with titles beginning with Louisiane
• All pages with titles beginning with Louisianian
• All pages with titles containing Louisiana
• All pages with titles containing Louisiane
• All pages with titles containing Louisianian

References

External links

Wikimedia Atlas of Louisiana

• Outline of Louisiana at
  Curlie
• Louisiana Geographic Information Center
• Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
• Louisiana Weather and Tides
• Geographic data related to Outline of Louisiana at OpenStreetMap

Ecoregions

• Ecoregions of Louisiana
• Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain

Geology links

• Geology
  • Generalized Geologic Map of Louisiana, 2008
  • Generalized Geology of Louisiana (text to Generalized Geologic Map of Louisiana)
  • Loess Map of Louisiana
  • Other Louisiana Geological Maps
  • Louisiana Geofacts

Government

• Official State of Louisiana website
• Louisiana State Databases – Annotated list of searchable databases produced by Louisiana state agencies and compiled by the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association.
• Census Statistics on Louisiana

Federal politics

• Energy Profile for Louisiana
• USDA Louisiana Statistical Facts
• USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Louisiana
• 1st district: Steve Scalise – Website
• 2nd district: Cedric Richmond – Website & Campaign Website
• 3rd district: Jeff Landry – Website
• John C. Fleming
  –
• 5th district: Rodney Alexander – Website
• 6th district: Bill Cassidy
• 7th district: Charles Boustany – Website

News media

• The Times-Picayune major Louisiana newspaper
• WWL-TV Louisiana television station

Tourism

• Official site of Louisiana tourism
• Official site of the New Orleans Convention & Tourism Bureau
• Official site of New Orleans Plantation Country tourism