North Louisiana

Region in Louisiana, United States

North Louisiana

Region

Downtown Shreveport, Louisiana

The North region is shaded in brown.

Country| United States
State| Louisiana
Principal cities|

* Shreveport
* Bossier City
* Monroe
* Ruston
* West Monroe
* Minden
* Bastrop

Population

(2020)

• Total| 830,266

North Louisiana (French: Louisiane du Nord), also known locally as Sportsman's Paradise,[1][2] (a name sometimes attributed to the state as a whole) is a region in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The region has two metropolitan areas: Shreveport-Bossier City and Monroe-West Monroe, two micropolitian areas: Ruston Micropolitan Area and Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area, and two combined statistical areas: Shreveport–Bossier City–Minden CSA and Monroe–Ruston Combined Statistical Area. The Shreveport area has the largest metropolitan and CSA by population in North Louisiana.

## Geography

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The northwestern portion of Louisiana is culturally and economically attached to Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas. Combined they comprise the Ark-La-Tex area, just as the northeastern portion of Louisiana, Southeast Arkansas, and Northwest Mississippi are known as the Ark-La-Miss. The Louisiana Central Hill Country, the hilly areas of LaSalle, Grant, Winn, Caldwell, Natchitoches, Jackson, Lincoln, and Bienville parishes,[3] extend into portions of North Louisiana's border with Central Louisiana.

### Metropolitan and micropolitan areas

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There are two combined statistical areas, two metropolitan statistical areas, and two micropolitan statistical areas that include North Louisiana parishes.

* Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area
* Monroe-West Monroe metropolitan statistical area
* Ruston micropolitan statistical area
* Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area
* Monroe–Ruston Combined Statistical Area
* Shreveport-Bossier City-Minden combined statistical area

### Parishes

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North Louisiana consists of the following 20 parishes:

* Bienville
* Bossier
* Caddo
* Caldwell
* Claiborne
* DeSoto
* East Carroll
* Franklin
* Jackson
* Lincoln
* Madison
* Morehouse
* Ouachita
* Red River
* Richland
* Tensas
* Union
* Webster
* West Carroll
* Winn

## See also

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* Intrastate regions
* Driskill Mountain
* North Louisiana Historical Association

## References

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1. ^ "Sports and Sporting Events in Shreveport and Bossier". www.shreveport-bossier.org. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
2. ^ "Louisiana's Dynamic Culture - Regions of Louisiana". microsite.smithsonianmag.com. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
3. ^ "The People of the North Central Louisiana Hill Country". Louisiana State University.

* "North Louisiana History". Michigan State University. 2003-03-15.←Broken link, May 2017.

## External links

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* Map of Louisiana regions
* Clickable Louisiana Map

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Parishes|

* Acadia
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* Beauregard
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* Bossier
* Caddo
* Calcasieu
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* Cameron
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* Morehouse
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* Tensas
* Terrebonne
* Union
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* Vernon
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* Webster
* West Baton Rouge
* West Carroll
* West Feliciana
* Winn

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