Louisiana is the state on the south of the United States of America. It is the 18th state that was acknowledged as the state and entered the Union. The capital is Baton Rouge, the biggest city is New Orleans. The total population of Louisiana is more than 5 millions of people and this makes this state on the 25th place in the USA.
In Louisiana there are thirty best shops where you can get your perfect tattoo, no one shops where you can remove tattoo and around twenty shops where you can make piercing. The prices for tattoo application in Louisiana are starting from twenty-eight to six hundred and thirty-seven USD.
The official nickname of Louisiana is the State of Pelicans. In the past Louisiana was the vast territory near the coast of the Mexican Bay that was controlled by the French. After the Louisiana purchase the southern part of this territory became the state with the same name.
In the west Louisiana borders with Texas, in the north with Arkansas, in the East - with Mississippi, in the south the territory is limited by the waters of Mexican bay. The territory of the state is divided into two parts - upper and lower. The lower part has a lot of swamps.
It is interesting that during the Civil War Louisiana came out of the Union (it happened in January 26, 1861. Only later the federal troops captured New Orleans and this happened in April 25, 1862.
The modern louisiana is the center of the social tension in the United States of America. In the year of 2010 there was an explosion of the platform in the Mexican Ban and the coastline suffered a lot from the oil.