Southeastern States

Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee

Name: Alabama

Capital: Montgomery

Population: 4,040,587
Square miles: 50,767
Interesting information: Alabama became a state on December 14, 1819.It's the twenty-second state in the United States.

Name: Arkansas

Capital: Little Rock

Population: 2,350,725
Square miles: 52,078
Interesting information: The president of the United States,Bill Clinton, was born in Hope, Arkansas.

Name: Florida

Capital: Tallahassee

Population: 12,937,926
Square miles: 54,153
Interesting information: In 1564,France made a colony, Fort Carolina, on the St.John's River. Francis Drake burn St.Augustine down. St.Augustine was a place where Spain had settled.

Name: Georgia

Capital: Atlanta

Population: 5,477,216
Square miles: 58,910
Interesting information: Civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr.,entered Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High at the age of thirteen. He shipped two years and finished high school at the age of fifteen.

Name: Louisiana

Capital: Baton Rouge

Population: 4,219,973
Square miles: 44,521
Interesting information: The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans Saints, is the world's largest indoor stadium.

Name: Mississippi

Capital: Jackson

Population: 2,537,216
Square miles: 47,233
Interesting information: In 1682, Robert La Salle traced the rivers from Illinois to the mouth and claimed the entire valley for France.

Name: North Carolina

Capital:Raleigh

Population:6,628,637
Square miles:48,843
Interesting information: Many of the Cherokee Indians lived in North Carolina. The Cherokees were the Indians driven west along the Trail of Tears between 1830 and 1840.

Name: South Carolina

Capital: Columbia

Population: 3,486,703
Square miles: 30,203
Interesting information: In the 1760s, Great Britain passed a series of laws that caused unrest in South Carolina and the other American colonies. In 1775, the Revolutionary War began in Massachusetts. The scene of many important battles took place in South Carolina.

Name:Tennessee

Capital: Nashville

Population: 4,877,185
Square miles:41,155
Interesting information: Spanish explorers first visited this area in 1541. English trader crossed the Great Smokies from the east while France's Marquette and Jolliet sailed down the Mississippi from the west in 1673.