Baton Rouge is a city on the Mississippi River, and the capital of Louisiana.

Antebellum landmarks include the castle-like Old Louisiana State Capitol, now a museum, and Magnolia Mound Plantation, with its French Creole house.

LSU Rural Life Museum is a complex of refurbished buildings illustrating 18th- and 19th-century life. On the river, the USS Kidd is a retired WWII destroyer that is now a museum.

Population: 224,149 (2019)

Mayor: Sharon Weston Broome

Parish: East Baton Rouge Parish

Area code: Area code 225