List of parishes in Louisiana
The U.S. state of Louisiana is divided into 64 parishes (French: "paroisses") in the same manner that 48 other states of the United States are divided into counties, and Alaska is divided into boroughs.
List of Louisiana metropolitan areas
The U.S. state of Louisiana has a total of nine Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs). Thirty (30) of Louisiana's sixty-four (64) parishes are classified as metropolitan. As of the 2010 census, these parishes had a combined population of 3,340,667 (74.8% of the state's population). Based on a July 1, 2009, population estimate, that figure had increased to 3,356,913 (74.7% of the state's population).