The city of Kaplan, Louisiana is referred to as "The Most Cajun place on earth".
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Louisiana is the only state in the union that does not have counties. Its political subdivisions are called parishes.
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In 1803 the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory. 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. The lands acquired stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. Thirteen states were carved from the Louisiana Territory. The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States.