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Baton Rouge (/ˌbætən ˈruːʒ/ BAT-ən ROOZH; from French Bâton-Rouge 'red stick') is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish,[1] Louisiana's most populous parish (the equivalent of counties in other states).[2] Since 2020, it has been the second-largest city in Louisiana after New Orleans; Baton Rouge is the 18th-most-populous state capital. According to the 2020 United States census,[3] the city-proper had a population of 227,470; its consolidated population was 456,781 in 2020.[4] The city is the center of the Greater Baton Rouge area—Louisiana's second-largest metropolitan area—with a population of 870,569 as of 2020,[5] up from 802,484 in 2010.[6] Baton Rouge is the fourth most populous city proper in the Deep South region of the southeastern United States.

The Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. This allowed development of a business quarter safe from seasonal flooding. In addition, it built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the riverfront and low-lying agricultural areas.[7]

It has developed as a culturally rich center, with settlement by immigrants from numerous European nations and African peoples brought to North America as slaves or indentured servants. It was ruled by seven different governments: French, British, and Spanish in the colonial era; the Republic of West Florida; as a United States territory and state; Confederate, and United States again since the end of the American Civil War. Through the various occupying national governments of Baton Rouge, the city and its metropolitan area have developed as a multicultural region practicing many religious traditions from Catholicism to Protestantism, and Louisiana and Haitian Vodou; the area has also become home to a sizeable lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community,[8] and elected the first open LGBT politician for the Louisiana Public Service Commission.[9]

Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, research, motion picture,[10] and growing technology center of the American South.[11] It is the location of Louisiana State University—the LSU system's flagship university and the state's largest institution of higher education.[12] It is also the location of Southern University, the flagship institution of the Southern University System—the nation's only historically black college system.[13] The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is the tenth-largest in the U.S. by tonnage shipped, and is the farthest upstream Mississippi River port capable of handling Panamax ships.[14][15] Major corporations participating in the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area's economy include Amazon, Lamar Advertising Company, BBQGuys, Marucci Sports, Piccadilly Restaurants, Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers, ExxonMobil, Brown & Root, Shell, and Dow Chemical Company.

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  1. ^ "East Baton Rouge Parish". Government of Louisiana. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  2. ^ "Local Louisiana". Government of Louisiana. Retrieved 2022-12-12. The state of Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes, which are analogous to counties in other states. There are various forms of government being used within the parishes.
  3. ^ "QuickFacts: Baton Rouge, Louisiana". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  4. ^ "2019 Demographic and Housing Census for East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana". United States Census Bureau.
  5. ^ "2020 Population and Housing State Data". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
  6. ^ "The United States Census Bureau". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  7. ^ "LSU Libraries - Special Collections - Andrew David Lytle, photographic artist - Baton Rouge: Levee Construction, Mississippi River". Louisiana State University. Archived from the original on August 29, 2008. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  8. ^ Williams, Aris. "Baton Rouge Pride was a needed reminder about the joy to be found in the LGBTQ community". The Reveille. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  9. ^ O'Donoghue, Julie (2022-12-11). "Davante Lewis becomes Louisiana's first openly LGBTQ person elected to state government". Louisiana Illuminator. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  10. ^ "Growing Louisiana-Based Businesses Sustains Hollywood South" Archived February 27, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, Forbes, June 9, 2014
  11. ^ "IBM selects BR" Archived May 26, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, The Advocate – Baton Rouge, LA
  12. ^ "About". Louisiana State University. Archived from the original on February 20, 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  13. ^ "Louisiana historically black universities host inaugural 'HBCU Day at the Capitol'". Southern University and A&M College. 2019-04-26. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  14. ^ "Top 25 Water Ports by Weight: 2004 (Million short tons)". Freight Facts and Figures 2006. Federal Highway Administration. November 2006. Archived from the original on November 21, 2007. Retrieved August 18, 2007.
  15. ^ "About the Port". portgbr.com. Archived from the original on February 6, 2011. Retrieved April 27, 2011.


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