SAT Test Centers and Dates in Louisiana

Louisiana

Louisiana [LUI, English l ʊ ɪ z ɪ ænə], abbreviation La. Post officially LA, state located in the southern United States, 112,814 km ², (2015) 4.67 million residents (1960: 3,260,000, 1980: 4.20 million, 2000: 4.47 million residents). The capital is Baton Rouge. Louisiana is administratively divided into 64 parishes.

Law and Politics

1974 Constitution; Senate with 39, House of Representatives with 105 members. Louisiana has two Senators and six MPs in Congress.

Geography

Louisiana mainly comprises the low-lying plains of the Mississippi floodplain protected by river dikes, its delta and part of the Gulf Coast Plain. The climate is characterized by long, hot and humid summers and mild winters with occasional ingress of cold air. Hurricanes with storm surges are not uncommon (Hurricane Katrina in August 2005). About 50% of the state’s area is forest-covered, mixed forests (pines, oaks, hickory trees), in the Mississippi Delta cypresses, tupelo trees and swamp cedars are widespread.

Population

The proportion of whites was 63.4% in 2014, that of blacks to 32.5%, others 4.1%. The largest cities are New Orleans, the capital Baton Rouge and Shreveport.

Economy

In agriculture, soybeans, cotton, sugar cane, sweet potatoes and rice are produced on fertile soils. Meat and dairy farming, poultry farming and fishing (shrimp, oysters) as well as fur production through trapping (mink, otter, muskrat, opossum, nutria) are of great importance. The forests provide construction timber and the raw material for paper production. Rich deposits of crude oil and natural gas (including offshore production) as well as sulfur and rock salt are the basis of industry. Tourism is economically important.

Louisiana state symbols

• Tree – swamp cypress (two-row taxodium, Taxodium distichum)
• Flower (cultivated) – magnolia
• Flower (wild) – giant (Louisiana) iris (Iris giganticaerulea)
• Beast – black bear (baribal, Ursus americanus)
• Dog breed – Catahoula Leopard Dog
• Bird – American brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
• Fish – white American bayfish (Morone americana)
• Reptile – American (Mississippi) alligator (Alligator mississippiensis)
• Amphibian – American green tree frog (herding tree frog, Hyla cinerea)
• Crustacean – freshwater crayfish
• Insect – honey bee (Apis mellifera)
• Fossil – petrified palm wood
• Precious (ornamental) stone (material) – shells of the eastern (Atlantic) oyster (Crassostrea virginica)
• Mineral – agate
• Food product (berry) – strawberry (Fragária)
• Food product (jelly) – hawthorn jelly (Crataegus aestivalis) and sugar cane jelly
• Food item (vegetable) – sweet potato (sweet potato) and Creole tomato
• Food item (pie) – meat pie Natchitoches
• Food product (dish) – gumbo
• Drink – milk
• Color – blue, white and gold
• Musical instrument – diatonic button accordion (“Cajun button accordion”)
• Song – “You Are My Sunshine” (You Are My Sunshine, by Jimmy Davis and Charles Mitchell) and “Give Me Louisiana” (by Doralis Fontaine)

Louisiana Fifty States Quarter Dollar

The Louisiana Fifty States Quarter Dollar coin depicts a brown pelican (one of the state’s official symbols), a trumpet with musical notes “flying” from it, and the contours of the territory acquired as a result of the purchase of the French colony of Louisiana by the United States against the background of a map USA.

The inscription on the coin reads Louisiana Purchase (“Louisiana Purchase”).

America the Beautiful

One of the quarter dollar coins from the America the Beautiful series is dedicated to the Kisatchee National Forest, located in the state of Louisiana.

The coin depicts a wild turkey flying over grass and longleaf (marsh) pines in the background.

The inscription on the coin reads Kisatchie (“Kisatchie”).