Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi are along the east side of the Mississippi River. The river also flows through Minnesota and Louisiana so that it is on both sides of the river in those states.
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26 states mississippi
Approximately 178 million as of 2008, or 59% of the total population of the United States.
Louisiana
Massachusetts, along with 25 other U.S. states, is east of the Mississippi River. This river is considered by many to mark the western boundary of the Eastern United States.
24 States are west of the Mississippi river, 26 east of the mississippi.
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The total is 28 including those two that the river runs through. Except for a tiny piece of Illinois, there are 26 states entirely east of the Mississippi River.
The answer to this question is 26 (When you don't include Louisiana and Minnesota)
In the Eastern US, there are twenty-six states. The recognized border between the west and the east is the Mississippi River.
There are 26 states. 50-24 = 26 There are 22 west of the river including Alaska and Hawaii. There are 2 on the river, Minnesota and Louisiana. There are 26 east of the river.
There are 26 states east of the Mississippi River, not including Minnesota and Louisiana. It does, however, include Illinois even though a small portion of it lies west of the Mississippi due to a flood that caused it to divert slightly to the east.
There are 5 states whose western borders are the Mississippi, except for a tiny portion of Illinois: Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. *Because of turns in the river, some areas of the 5 states with eastern borders on the river (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana) are actually east of the river. Both bridges from the East Bank to the West Bank at New Orleans actually run west to east.