New Orleans
New Orleans is located 170 kilometers upstream of the Mississippi River in southern Louisiana. It is one of the major port cities in the United States and the largest city in Louisiana. As of 2010, it is the 46th largest metropolitan area in the United States. It is a port city with the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River. It is a trading center with Latin America and is the southern largest commercial and financial center city. The oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico is a major industry in New Orleans. As a city where jazz was born, it is widely known as "the hometown of jazz". Ports that became free ports since 1947 occupy the second largest US trade volume, export cotton, oil, grain, and tobacco, and import sugar, coffee, banana, bauxite, etc. In addition to the world's first paper-making industry, the industry is active in the production of machinery, refining oil and sugar. Since it was originally built by the French, there are many buildings in the old town that can be seen at that time.