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MS · Capital Jackson · 82 counties · Central time · Letter or A4
Printable Mississippi map
Mississippi on one printed page, with Jackson, the largest cities, all 82 county borders and the river that gives the state its name running down the western edge.
What prints
Everything from the Tennessee line at the top to the Gulf of Mexico at the bottom fits on a single sheet. The western border is the wandering course of the Mississippi River against Arkansas and Louisiana; the printed outline follows every oxbow, so students can see how far the river has strayed from a straight line. The eastern border with Alabama is a surveyed line broken by one slight angle, and the southern border with Louisiana turns from the Pearl River to the 31st parallel and back to the Pearl. The 82 counties are drawn as thin lines, Jackson gets the capital marker, and the Major cities layer adds Gulfport on the coast, Southaven at the Tennessee line, Hattiesburg and Biloxi.
Page orientation
Portrait, without question: Mississippi is about 340 miles tall and only about 170 miles wide, the most elongated outline in the Deep South. In landscape the state would occupy a narrow band in the centre of the page with wide blank margins either side. Portrait on Letter paper gives each county roughly the size of a postage stamp, which is enough to distinguish the small Delta counties along the river from the larger ones in the piney woods to the southeast.
What is labeled
- State name and the abbreviation MS.
- Jackson as the capital, on the Pearl River in Hinds County.
- Gulfport, Southaven, Hattiesburg and Biloxi on the Major cities layer.
- All 82 county borders; the long row of Delta counties down the west side is the most recognisable feature.
- The Mississippi River border, the Tennessee River corner in the far northeast, and the Gulf shoreline with its barrier islands.
The Delta — the flat alluvial plain between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers — is the most useful teaching feature on this map even though it is not outlined: it corresponds roughly to the counties from DeSoto south to Warren along the river. A hand-drawn line from Memphis to Vicksburg along the county borders marks its eastern edge. The blank Mississippi map removes all labels for tests; the county map lists every county with its seat.
Key: capital and largest cities
| Place | Note | Latitude | Longitude |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson | State capital and largest city | 32.3°N | 90.2°W |
| Gulfport | Gulf coast, Harrison County | 30.4°N | 89.1°W |
| Southaven | Memphis suburb at the Tennessee line | 35.0°N | 90.0°W |
| Hattiesburg | Leaf River, south-central | 31.3°N | 89.3°W |
| Biloxi | Gulf coast, east of Gulfport | 30.4°N | 88.9°W |
Related maps
- Blank Mississippi map — the same outline with every label removed.
- Mississippi map — the interactive page with borders, geography and regions.
- Mississippi county map — all 82 counties with seats.
- Jackson — capital page.
- Mississippi River map — the western border from source to Gulf.
- South region · Central Time Zone.
- All printable US maps — national sheets: labeled, capitals, regions, time zones, rivers.