The
Louisiana Purchase is more then
2,000,000 km2 (800,000 square miles) of territory purchased by the
United States from
France in
1803. The purchase contained parts or all of present-day
Arkansas,
Missouri,
Iowa,
Minnesota west of the
Mississippi River,
North Dakota,
South Dakota,
Nebraska,
Oklahoma, nearly all of
Kansas, the portions of
Montana,
Wyoming, and
Colorado east of the
Rocky Mountains, and
Louisiana west of the
Mississippi River but not including the city of
New Orleans.
Public domain picture from U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
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