Along major highways, the city is 93 mi (150 km) east of Jackson 154 mi (248 km) southwest of Birmingham, Alabama 202 mi (325 km) northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana and 231 mi (372 km) southeast of Memphis, Tennessee.Įstablished in 1860, at the junction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Southern Railway of Mississippi, Meridian built an economy based on the railways and goods transported on them, and it became a strategic trading center. It is the county seat of Lauderdale County and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area.
state of Mississippi, with a population of 35,052 at the 2020 census. Meridian is the eighth most populous city in the U.S.
