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Pointe Coupee Parish
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parish in Louisiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Louisiana
- Named after
- French for the place of the cut-off
- Seat
- New Roads
- Largest city
- New Roads
- Total
- 591 sq mi (1,530 km )
- Land
- 557 sq mi (1,440 km )
- Water
- 33 sq mi (85 km ) 5.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 19,520
- Density
- 37.3/sq mi (14.4/km )
- Demonym
- Pointe Coupean
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Zip codes
- 70715, 70729, 70732, 70736, 70747, 70749, 70752, 70753, 70755, 70756, 70759, 70760, 70762, 70773, 70783
- Congressional district
- 6th
- Website
- pcparish .org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Pointe Coupee Parish (/ˈpɔɪnt kəˈpiː/ or /ˈpwɑːnt kuːˈpeɪ/; French: Paroisse de la Pointe-Coupée) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,758. The parish seat is New Roads.
Pointe Coupee Parish is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan area. In 2010, the center of population of Louisiana was located in Pointe Coupee Parish, in the city of New Roads.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pointe Coupee Parish” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.