U.S. State Capitals Closest to the Mississippi River

These are the 10 U.S. state capitals closest to the Mississippi River. Have Fun!
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capital
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0
Baton Rouge
0
0
St. Paul
0
34
Jackson
55
63
Springfield
101
63
Madison
101
79
Jefferson City
127
79
Little Rock
127
125
Nashville
201
127
Des Moines
204
210
Indianapolis
338
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14 Comments
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Level 80
Sep 14, 2021
Nice one!
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Level 81
Sep 14, 2021
I did not know the Louisiana capitol building looked like that. So interesting!
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Level 78
Sep 21, 2021
Check out Honolulu's capitol building.
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Level 59
Sep 23, 2021
Huey Long built it to be the tallest in the country. By the way Huey Long is a very weird and fun rabbit hole to go down literally in our classes we wrote a paper called hero or dictator Huey Long, Honestly I'm just happy that people talk about one of our politicians.
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Level 39
Jun 7, 2022
SO UGLY!!!!
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Level 39
Jun 7, 2022
WOAH. HONOLULU! THAT'S EMBARASSING!
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Level 75
Sep 14, 2021
Darn, now I know that I can't type 'Indianapolis' in less than 3 seconds.
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Level 91
Sep 23, 2021
I just barely got it in time!
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Level 83
Sep 14, 2021
I misread the title and spent a minute frantically typing in names of states and wondering why Mississippi wasn't being accepted
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Level 17
Sep 25, 2021
Madison is not a capital!
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Level 51
Sep 27, 2021
It is the capital of Wisconsin
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Level 63
Sep 28, 2021
This is a good, original idea for a quiz.
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Level 39
Jun 7, 2022
THIS QUIZ IS NOICE!
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Level 69
Oct 7, 2025
That's what I get for not reading the instructions. US state capitals closest to the mississippi RIVER, not the mississipi state, I was so confuse