List of parishes in Louisiana

Parishes of Louisiana
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Category	Second-level administrative division
Location	State of Louisiana
Number	64 Parishes
Populations	Greatest: 448,467 (East Baton Rouge Parish) Least: 3,764 (Tensas Parish) Average: 71,465
Areas	Largest: 2,429 square miles (6,290 km2) (Plaquemines Parish) Smallest: 203 square miles (530 km2) (West Baton Rouge Parish) Average: 781 square miles (2,020 km2)
Government	Parish government
Subdivisions	cities, Towns, Census designated place, Unincorporated area

Politics of Louisiana
Constitution and law United States Constitution Louisiana Constitution Louisiana law
Executive Governor John Bel Edwards (D) State Cabinet Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser (R) Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin (R) Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) State Treasurer John Schroder (R) Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry Mike Strain (R) Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon (R) Public Service Commission Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
Legislature State Senate President Page Cortez (R) President pro tempore Beth Mizell (R) Minority Leader Gerald Boudreaux (D) House of Representatives Speaker Clay Schexnayder (R) Speaker pro tempore Tanner Magee (R) Majority Leader Blake Miguez (R) Minority Leader Samuel Jenkins Jr. (D)
Judiciary Supreme Court Chief Justice John L. Weimer (I) Justice William J. Crain (R) Justice Scott Crichton (R) Justice James T. Genovese (R) Justice Jay McCallum (R) Justice Jefferson D. Hughes III (R) Justice Piper D. Griffin (D) Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal Louisiana District Courts Parish and City Courts Mayor's Courts Justice of the Peace Courts
Elections Nonpartisan blanket primary Political parties Qualified Louisiana parties Democratic Party Republican Party Green Party Reform Party Libertarian Party National minor parties Political party strength
Administrative divisions Parishes (64) Municipalities (303) School districts
Federal representation U.S. Senate (list) Bill Cassidy (R) John Kennedy (R) U.S. House of Representatives (list) 1: Steve Scalise (R) 2: Troy Carter (D) 3: Clay Higgins (R) 4: Mike Johnson (R) 5: Julia Letlow (R) 6: Garret Graves (R)
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The U.S. state of Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes (French: paroisses, Spanish: parroquias) in the same manner that Alaska is divided into boroughs, and the remaining 48 other states are divided into counties. Louisiana's usage of the term "parish" for a geographic region or local government dates back to the French colonial and Spanish colonial periods.

Thirty-eight parishes are governed by a council called a police jury. The remaining 26 have various other forms of government, including: council-president, council-manager, parish commission, and consolidated parish/city.^[1]