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Lake Charles is the principal city of the Lake Charles metropolitan statistical area, which had a population of 240,082 as of 2023. It is the larger principal city of the Lake Charles-DeRidder combined statistical area, with a population of 276,909. [26] The 2020 population of the five-parish region of Southwest Louisiana was 313,951. [27]
Lake Charles (French: Lac Charles) is a brackish lake located on the Calcasieu River in Southwest Louisiana, United States, situated almost entirely within the Lake Charles city limits. The Calcasieu Ship Channel flows along the western side for large ships to pass and is the western boundary of the city limits. [ 1 ]
It is also part of the larger Lake Charles–DeRidder combined statistical area which had a population of 276,909 in 2023. [1] The Lake Charles MSA also shares borders with the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area to the west. Metropolitan Lake Charles, the principal city, is commonly referred to as the Lake Area.
Sulphur is located near the center of Calcasieu Parish. The city lies on Interstate 10 between the towns of Vinton and Westlake, approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of the Texas border. The city of Lake Charles is 9 miles (14 km) to the east. U.S. Route 90 passes through the center of Sulphur as Napoleon Street. Access from I-10 is via exits 20 ...
Intracoastal City, Louisiana; Lake Charles, Louisiana - As of mid-2024 ranked 10th busiest. The GIWW has the Calcasieu Lock just east of Lake Charles. The three-fold purpose is to facilitate navigation, provide flood relief, and prevent possible saltwater intrusion into the Mermentau River Basin. [7] Larose, Louisiana; Morgan City, Louisiana
The Port of Lake Charles is an industrial port based in the city of Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S.A.It is a major employer in Lake Charles. It is the twelfth-busiest port in the United States according to the American Association of Port Authorities U.S. Port Ranking by Cargo Tonnage, 2013 report [1] and the 83rd-busiest in the world in terms of tonnage according to the American Association of ...
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The Charles River (Massachusett: Quinobequin), sometimes called the River Charles or simply the Charles, is an 80-mile-long (129 km) river in eastern Massachusetts.It flows northeast from Hopkinton to Boston along a highly meandering route, that doubles back on itself several times and travels through 23 cities and towns before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. [1]