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VOLUNTEER STATE AREA: 109,152 sq km (42,144 sq mi). POPULATION: 5,175,000. CAPITAL: Nashville, pop. 495,000. ECONOMY:
Industry: chemicals, transportation equipment, rubber, plastics. Agriculture: soybeans, cotton, tobacco, livestock and livestock products, dairy products, cattle, hogs. PCI: $19,480. ADMISSION: 1796 as 16th state.
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Foreign companies drawn by nonunionized labor and access to U.S. markets are invigorating Tennessee. The Tennessee River, whose dams generate abundant electricity, trisects the state. In the west biomedical, telecommunications, and transportation industries lead an economic resurgence centered on Memphis. Soybean and cotton growers in this region struggle to conserve easily eroded soils. Nashville, in the middle of the state, is America’s country-music capital. In the east Great Smoky Mountains National Park draws more visitors than any other national park in the U.S.
Text source: National Geographic Atlas of the World Revised Sixth Edition, 1995
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