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Tennessee ( / ˌtɛnɪˈsiː / ⓘ TEN-iss-EE, locally / ˈtɛnɪsi / TEN-iss-ee ), [8] [9] [10] officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south ...
Most of the state is considered part of the Upland South, and the eastern third is part of Appalachia. [1] Tennessee covers roughly 42,143 square miles (109,150 km 2 ), of which 926 square miles (2,400 km 2 ), or 2.2%, is water. It is the 16th smallest state in terms of land area. The state is about 440 miles (710 km) long from east to west and ...
Springfield, Tennessee. Location of Springfield in Robertson County, Tennessee. / 36.49944°N 86.87861°W / 36.49944; -86.87861. Springfield is the county seat of Robertson County, Tennessee, United States. [7] It is located in Middle Tennessee near the northern border of the state. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 18,782.
State. The East Tennessee Crossing Byway is a 83-mile (134 km) National Scenic Byway in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Established in 2009, it is one of the newest byways in the National Scenic Byway system. [2] [3] The scenic byway traverses mostly along an unsigned concurrency of U.S. Route 25E / State Route 32 (US 25E/SR 32) in East Tennessee.
Mascot, Tennessee. Location in Knox County and the state of Tennessee. / 36.06722°N 83.75472°W / 36.06722; -83.75472. Mascot is a census-designated place (CDP) in Knox County, Tennessee. [5] The population was 2,760 at the 2020 census [8] up from 2,411 at the 2010 census.
The Elk River rises in Grundy County, Tennessee, in Burroughs Cove near the community of Elkhead. It is bridged for the first time by State Route 50 near Pelham, Tennessee. At first it flows southwestward, and turns to flow more generally westward. It is then bridged by both U.S. Route 41 and Interstate 24. Shortly below this point, it forms ...
Interstate 840 ( I-840 ), formerly State Route 840 ( SR 840 ), is a freeway that serves as an outer bypass route around Nashville, Tennessee. Built by the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), it is also designated as Tennessee National Guard Parkway. [3] At 77.28 miles (124.37 km) long, it is the tenth-longest auxiliary Interstate ...
State Route 155. State Route 155 ( SR 155 ), mostly designated as Briley Parkway, is a major freeway and parkway beltway around Nashville, Tennessee. It is 35.1 miles (56.5 km) long. Briley Parkway, named in honor of former Nashville mayor Beverly Briley, passes the Grand Ole Opry House, Opry Mills, and the Opryland Hotel east of Nashville.