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Acadiana

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Settlement.name: Acadiana
Settlement.type: Region
Settlement.image_skyline: Downtown Lafayette LA 2021.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Downtown Lafayette, Louisiana
Settlement.image_flag: Flag of Acadiana.svg
Settlement.image_map: Acadiana Louisiana region map.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Map of Louisiana with Acadiana highlighted, and Cajun Heartland, USA in dark red
Settlement.image_map1: Map of USA LA.svg
Settlement.map_caption1: Location of Louisiana within the United States
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: United States
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Louisiana
Settlement.established_title: Legislative recognition
Settlement.established_date: 1971
Settlement.seat_type: Largest city
Settlement.seat: Lafayette
Settlement.blank_name_sec1: Languages

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Etymology
History
Effects of hurricanes
Geography
Major cities
Demographics
Cajun-Creole ethnicity
Religion
Transportation
Land
Water
Air
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Acadiana (; French and Louisiana French: ''L'Acadiane or Acadiane), also known as Cajun Country (Louisiana French: Pays des Cadiens''), is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state's Francophone population.

Many inhabitants of Cajun Country have Acadian ancestry and identify as Cajuns or Creoles. Of the 64 parishes that make up the U.S. state of Louisiana, 22 named parishes and other parishes of similar cultural environment make up this intrastate region. Lafayette Parish and the seven surrounding parishes are identified as the "Cajun Heartland, USA" district.