Tennessee Abbreviation

What is the abbreviation for Tennessee state?

TN is the 2 letter abbreviation for Tennessee, the 16th largest state in the United States of America. Tennessee is a state located in East South Central  part of U.S.A, bordering Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, and Virginia. Nashville is the capital city of Tennessee. Major cities include Memphis (Population: 655781), Nashville (Population: 530863), Knoxville (Population: 185302), Chattanooga (Population: 176599), East Chattanooga (Population: 154035), Clarksville (Population: 149187), Murfreesboro (Population: 126129), Franklin (Population: 72650), Jackson (Population: 66986), Johnson City (Population: 66038), Bartlett (Population: 58590), and Hendersonville (Population: 56029).

Tennessee State Profile

• Capital: Nashville
• Admitted to USA: 1796
• Area: 109,153 km²
• Population: 6,829,174
• Time zone: GMT-5, GMT-6
• Calling code: 423, 615, 731, 865, 901, 931
• ISO 2-Letter Postal Abbreviation:  TN
• State Government Website: http://www.tennessee.gov/

Overview

The state of Tennessee is located in the southeastern United States and is one of the so-called southern states. Tennessee borders Missouri to the northwest, Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina to the east, Georgia to the southeast, Alabama and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas to the southwest. In 1796, Tennessee became the 16th state to join the Union, but replaced itself in 1861 and rejoined in 1866. Before joining, the area belonged to North Carolina and then to the Southwest Territory.

Today Tennessee covers an area of ​​109,247 km² and has approximately 6.47 million inhabitants. The capital of Tennessee is Nashville, with approximately 626,000 residents. The state is nicknamed “Volunteer State”. This is because during the Second War of Independence (1812-1815), a particularly large number of Tennessee citizens fought as volunteers. The state motto is “Agriculture and commerce”. The name Tennessee is derived from the Cherokee settlement “Tanasi” on the Little Tennessee River. This was already visited in 1567 by the Spanish conqueror Juan Pardo. Tennessee is famous for blues as well as the birthplace of rock’n’roll and country and country music.

The blues stronghold is in the west of the state, country music in the middle of the state and bluegrass is a specialty of eastern Tennessee. In this context, the famous Jack Daniel’s Whiskey is not surprising. In 1968 the civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shot. On September 12, 2003, the most famous American country music singer and songwriter Johnny Cash (1932-2003) died in Nashville. Other well-known state musicians include Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins. And on June 9, Memphis passed one of the Mississippi’s highest tidal waves since 1937. The river widened from normally 0.8 km to approximately 4.8 km. Nevertheless, the most important parts of the city are spared major floods.

Tennessee’s economy is differentiated. In addition to the high proportion of agricultural products such as textiles, cotton, soybeans and cattle, energy production and tourism are also on the rise. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the United States in Tennessee. Smaller parts of Tennessee are also located in the so-called Tornado Alley. This is a particularly tornado-rich area in the Midwestern United States, where over a thousand large and small tornadoes roam across the country each year, especially in the spring.

The US states of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri are entirely within Tornado Alley. Tornado Alley also includes the northeastern part of Texas, the north of Louisiana, the northwestern part of Mississippi, central and southern Illinois, the southwest of Indiana and parts of Nebraska as well as smaller parts of Kentucky.

Cities and larger towns

Memphis
The city of Memphis with its approximately 670,000 inhabitants is the largest city in the state of Tennessee. There are even more than 1.3 million people living in the city’s metropolitan area. The city is located in the far southwest of Tennessee, near the state border with Mississippi and Arkansas. Memphis was founded in 1819. In 1968 the civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shot. The city is widely regarded as the birthplace of rock’n’roll and the home of blues. Particularly noteworthy in this context is Beale Street, one of the centers of the blues, as well as the Sun Studios where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis were under contract. Memphis is also home to Graceland, the former home of Elvis Presley. Memphis also offers some excellent museums and galleries.

Nashville
Nashville has approximately 620,000 residents and is the capital of Tennessee and the second largest city in the state. Nashville is centrally located in the northern part of Tennessee on the Cumberland River and about 1.5 million people live in the metropolitan area of ​​the city. Nashville was founded in 1779 as Fort Nashborough. Nashville is known as the center of country music and is also called “Music City, USA”. Nashville also offers some interesting buildings, museums and galleries. But be careful, Nashville is one of the ten most dangerous cities in the United States. Nashville is twinned with Magdeburg.

Knoxville
The city of Knoxville has approximately 180,000 inhabitants and is located in the east of Tennessee on the Tennessee River. Knoxville was founded in 1786 and was the capital of Tennessee from 1796 to 1817. The city is named after the former war minister Henry Knox. The 1982 World’s Fair was held in Knoxville. The Sunsphere tower is still preserved from this period. The director Quentin Tarantino comes from Knoxville. Knoxville is a good base for trips to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Chattanooga
The city of Chattanooga with its approximately 165,000 inhabitants is the fourth largest city in Tennessee and is located in the southeast of the state, near the border with the state of Georgia. Chattanooga was founded in 1816 and in recent years the city has experienced a new boom which makes them very livable again. The famous Walnut Street Bridge can be found in Chattanooga. Other attractions include the Tennessee Aquarium and the Chattanooga Zoo at Warner Park. Chattanooga is also known for the song “Chattanooga Choo Choo” from Glenn Miller in 1941.

List of Tennessee Acronyms

The most commonly used abbreviations about Tennessee are TN which stands for Tennessee. In the following table, you can see all acronyms related to Tennessee, including abbreviations for airport, city, school, port, government, and etc.

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