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Yazoo City, Mississippi
Yazoo City
is a city in
Yazoo County
,
Mississippi
,
United States
. It was named after the
Yazoo River
, which, in turn was named by the French explorer
Robert La Salle
in 1682 as "Rivière des Yazous" in reference to the
Yazoo tribe
living near the river's mouth. It is the county seat of Yazoo County and the principal city of the Yazoo City
Micropolitan Statistical Area
, which is part of the larger
Jackson
–Yazoo City
Combined Statistical Area
. According to the
2010 census
, the population was 11,403.
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