15 Miss. Code. R. 9-99-1.2.2
Mississippi is bounded on the north by Tennessee, on the east by Alabama, on the west by Arkansas and Louisiana, and on the south by the Gulf of Mexico. Mississippi contains 47,715 square miles of area, mostly rural farmland. In the north, the large, fertile alluvial Delta was mostly swamp until the mid-1850s when, by the sweat of men and mules, some 300 miles of levees claimed this broad region. At the Delta's eastern edge, the land suddenly changes from table-flat to the rising loess bluff hills, stretching north into Tennessee and south into Louisiana. From Mississippi's northeast hills southward, the land changes into rolling farmland, hardwood highlands, then red clay hills to fertile pasture lands, on to piney forest, eventually giving way to the man-made white sand beaches of the Gulf Coast.
15 Miss. Code. R. 9-99-1.2.2