New Orleans

New Orleans (,[Merriam-Webster Dictionary] atau ;  ) adalah sebuah pelabuhan utama Amerika Syarikat serta bandar dan kawasan metropolitan terbesar di negeri Louisiana. Jumlah penduduk bandar ini adalah 343,829 orang mengikut bancian A.S pada tahun 2010."Largest U.S. Cities by Population, 1850–2010", U.S Census Bureau, in World Almanac and Book of Facts 2012, p. 613. Kawasan Metropolitan New Orleans (Kawasan Statistikal Metropolitan New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner) mempunyai penduduk seramai 1,167,764 orang pada tahun 2010 iaitu kawasan ke-46 terbesar di Amerika Syarikat."Largest U.S. Metropolitan Areas by Population, 1990–2010", U.S. Census Bureau, in World Almanac and Book of Facts 2012, p. 612. Kawasan Statistikal Disatukan New Orleans–Metairie–Bogalusa, sebuah kawasan perniagaan yang lebih besar, mempunyai penduduk seramai 1,452,502 orang pada tahun 2010.U.S. Combined Statistical Areas 2010

New Orleons terkenal dengan senibina senibina Perancis dan Creole Sepanyol yang menonjol, selain warisan silang-budaya dan bahasanya.Cultures well represented in New Orleans' history include French, Native American, African, Spanish, Cajun, German, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Latino, and Vietnamese.  New Orleans juga terkenal dengan masakan, musik (khususnya sebagai tempat kelahiran jazz), dan sambutan serta perayaan tahunannya, paling terkenal adalah Mardi Gras, yang bermula sejak zaman penjajahan Perancis. Kota ini sering dirujuk sebagai "paling unik"The term "most unique" is grammatically incorrect, as the word "unique" is a superlative. See for example:Merriam-Webster Dictionary of American Usage, Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1994.Fowler, Henry, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Oxford: Oxford University Press, USA, 2003.Nicholson, Margaret, A Dictionary of American English Usage, New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. di Amerika Syarikat.Institute of New Orleans History and Culture at Gwynedd-Mercy CollegeBehind the Scenes: Hurricane on the BayouDavid Billings, "New Orleans: A Choice Between Destruction and Reparations" , The Fellowship of Reconciliation, November/December 2005Bring New Orleans BackSpike Lee offers his take on Hurricane Katrina, by Damian Dovarganes, Associated Press, July 14, 2006

New Orleans terletak di tenggara Louisiana, dengan Sungai Mississippi melalui di tengah-tengahnya. Kota dan Parish Orleans () adalah sejajar. Kota dan parish ini bersempadanan dengan St. Tammany di utara, St. Bernard di timur, Plaquemines di selatan, dan Jefferson di selatan dan barat. Tasik Pontchartrain, yang mana merupakan sebahagian daripada had kota, terletak di utara dan Tasik Borgne terletak di timur.

Sebelum dilanda Taufan Katrina, Parish Orleans merupakan parish paling ramai penduduk di Louisiana. Setakat tahun 2015, ia menduduki tangga ke-3 dari jumlah penduduk, mengekori jirannya Parish Jefferson, dan Parish Baton Rouge Timur.

Orang terkenal

Bandar berkembar
New Orleans mempunyai sepuluh bandar berkembar:Sister Cities designated by Sister Cities International, Inc. (SCI) . Retrieved March 22, 2008.
 Caracas, Venezuela
 Durban, Afrika Selatan
 Innsbruck, Austria
 Juan-les-Pins, Perancis
 Maracaibo, Venezuela
 Matsue, Shimane, Jepun
 Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
  Orléans, Perancis
 Pointe-Noire, Republik Congo
 San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
 Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Kerjasama dan berkembar
 Batumi, Georgia

Nota

Rujukan

Bacaan lanjut

 Thomas J. Adams and Steve Striffler (eds.), Working in the Big Easy: The History and Politics of Labor in New Orleans. Lafayette, Louisiana: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2014.
 Nathalie Dessens, Creole City: A Chronicle of Early American New Orleans. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2015.
 Rien Fertel, Imagining the Creole City: The Rise of Literary Culture in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 2014.
 Scott P. Marler, The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century South. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
 Lawrence N. Powell, The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2012.
 LaKisha Michelle Simmons, Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
 Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2013.

Pautan luar

 Official Website of the City of New Orleans

 Official Tourism Website of the City of New Orleans
 History of New Orleans
 New Orleans Collection, 1770–1904 from the New-York Historical Society
 Army Corps of Engineers' New Orleans Risk and Reliability Report  – Interactive map showing flood risk
Geology and Hurricane-Protection Strategies in the Greater New Orleans Area Louisiana Geological Survey publication on geology of New Orleans
 Who's Killing New Orleans? – City Journal
  Louisiana Hurricane History, David Roth. National Weather Service, Camp Springs, MD. 2010.


Category:Bandar di Louisiana

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