Middle Tennessee

Middle Tennessee
Middle Tennessee
Grand Division
	Images, from top down, left to right: Skyline of Nashville, the Tennessee State Capitol, the Ryman Auditorium, Stones River National Battlefield in Murfreesboro, Vanderbilt University, Fall Creek Falls, Cedars of Lebanon State Park
	Nickname(s): Middle TN, Middle Tenn.
	The counties of Tennessee highlighted in red that are designated part of Middle Tennessee.
Country	United States
State	Tennessee
Largest city	Nashville
Area
• Land	44,054.2 km2 (17,009.41 sq mi)
Population (2020)	2,883,086
• Density	65.44/km2 (169.50/sq mi)
Demonym	Middle Tennessean

Middle Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions of the U.S. state of Tennessee that composes roughly the middle portion of the state. ^[1] Middle Tennessee contains the state's capital and biggest city which is Nashville It also has Clarksville, the state's fifth-biggest city, and Murfreesboro, the state's sixth-biggest city and largest suburb of Nashville. The Nashville metropolitan area which is located entirely within the region, is the most populated metropolitan area in the state. The Clarksville metropolitan area is the state's sixth-most populous. Middle Tennessee is both the biggest, in terms of land area, and the most populated of the state's three Grand Divisions.

Counties[change | change source]

There are 41 counties in Middle Tennessee:

Largest cities or towns in Middle Tennessee Source:^[2]
	Rank		County	Pop.
Nashville Clarksville	1	Nashville	Davidson	689,447	Murfreesboro Franklin
	2	Clarksville	Montgomery	166,722
	3	Murfreesboro	Rutherford	152,769
	4	Franklin	Williamson	83,454
	5	Hendersonville	Sumner	61,753
	6	Smyrna	Rutherford	53,070
	7	Spring Hill	Maury	50,005
	8	Brentwood	Williamson	45,373
	9	Gallatin	Sumner	44,431
	10	Columbia	Maury	41,690

References[change | change source]

↑ "Tennessee Blue Book 2015-2016" (PDF). sos.tn.gov. Nashville: Tennessee Secretary of State. 2015. p. 639. Retrieved June 5, 2021.
↑ "City and Town Population Totals: 2010-2019". United States Census Bureau, Population Division. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

[tnsos-1] "Tennessee Blue Book 2015-2016" (PDF). sos.tn.gov. Nashville: Tennessee Secretary of State. 2015. p. 639. Retrieved June 5, 2021.

[PopEstCities-2] "City and Town Population Totals: 2010-2019". United States Census Bureau, Population Division. Retrieved May 21, 2020.

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v t e State of Tennessee
Nashville (capital)
Topics	Name History Geography Tennesseans Constitution Governors Lieutenant Governors General Assembly	Seal of Tennessee
Grand Divisions	East Tennessee Middle Tennessee West Tennessee
Regions	Blue Ridge Mountains Cumberland Mountains Cumberland Plateau Great Appalachian Valley Highland Rim Mississippi Plain Nashville Basin Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians Tennessee Valley Tri-Cities
Largest cities	Nashville Memphis Knoxville Chattanooga Clarksville Murfreesboro Franklin Jackson Johnson City Bartlett
Counties	Anderson Bedford Benton Bledsoe Blount Bradley Campbell Cannon Carroll Carter Cheatham Chester Claiborne Clay Cocke Coffee Crockett Cumberland Davidson Decatur DeKalb Dickson Dyer Fayette Fentress Franklin Gibson Giles Grainger Greene Grundy Hamblen Hamilton Hancock Hardeman Hardin Hawkins Haywood Henderson Henry Hickman Houston Humphreys Jackson Jefferson Johnson Knox Lake Lauderdale Lawrence Lewis Lincoln Loudon Macon Madison Marion Marshall Maury McMinn McNairy Meigs Monroe Montgomery Moore Morgan Obion Overton Perry Pickett Polk Putnam Rhea Roane Robertson Rutherford Scott Sequatchie Sevier Shelby Smith Stewart Sullivan Sumner Tipton Trousdale Unicoi Union Van Buren Warren Washington Wayne Weakley White Williamson Wilson