LOUISIANA LOUISIANA U.S POPULATION INDUSTRY NATURAL RESOURCES GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION YEAR OF ADMISSION 1812 ORDER OF ADMISSION 18TH DATE OF CURRENT STATE CONSTITUTION 1975 CAPITAL BATON ROUGE POPULATION 4352000 1997 LAND AREA 43566 SQ MI POPULATION DENSITY 99.7 PEOPLE PER SQ MI NICKNAME PELICAN STATE MOTTO UNION JUSTICE AND CONFIDENCE GOVERNMENT CONFIGURATION BICAMERAL LEGISLATURE HOUSES 2 NUMBER OF STATE SENATORS 39 NUMBER OF STATE REPRESENTATIVES 105 NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES IN U.S CONGRESS 7 MAIN INDUSTRIES WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADE TOURISM GOVERNMENT MANUFACTURING CONSTRUCTION TRANSPORTATION MINING MAJOR NATURAL RESOURCES ALLUVIAL SOIL SOIL DEPOSITED BY RIVERS NATURAL GAS PETROLEUM SALT SULFUR FORESTS
