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GOVERNOR
BILL HASLAM

STATE OF

TENNESSEE

Tennessee is an East South Central state bordered In the past, Tennessee’s economy was largely ag- In Tennessee, we make world-class cars, guns and
by Kentucky to the north, North Carolina to the east, ricultural-based. Today, however, manufacturing is guitars. We make batteries, refrigerators, savory
Mississippi and Alabama to the south, and Missouri more important to the state’s economy. The Tennes- snacks and legendary whiskey. While other states
and Arkansas to the west. see Valley Authority headquartered in Knoxville, built gave up on their manufacturing workforce a long
hydroelectric and flood-control dams in the state. time ago, we never stopped making products used
The state, which lies between the Mississippi River The waterpower harnessed by the Tennessee Valley all over the world.
on the west and the Appalachian Mountains on the Authority and provided cheap electricity, which at-
east, touches a total of eight other states. Almost two- tracted many new businesses to the area. In Ternnesse we have created an environment un-
fifths of Tennessee’s population lives in the state’s bound by state borders. No other state is more com-
countryside. Today the state is now more industrial than agricul- petitive in recruiting foreign direct investment or in the
tural. Most of the state’s residents work in offices, exportation of products globally.
Tennessee is made up of farmlands of hills and pla- stores, and factories. Service industries, like whole-
teaus. The region has good transportation to and sale and retail trade, play a very important role in its We have established resources that make Tennesse
from other areas and has developed a more varied economy. Scientists conduct nuclear research at the accessible to any international market.
economy. Nashville, the state’s capital, is an import- Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
ant city in Middle Tennessee.

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