City in Louisiana, United StatesSet in the Mississippi River Delta of Louisiana, New Orleans lies on the river about 170 km upstream from the Gulf of Mexico, with Lake Pontchartrain to the north.
New Orleans is Louisiana's largest city and a major port for the Gulf Coast. It is famous for its music, above all jazz, which grew up in its African-American communities in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and for its Mardi Gras celebrations and the historic French Quarter.
Follow the Mississippi River down toward the Gulf of Mexico: New Orleans is in southeastern Louisiana, just south of the large Lake Pontchartrain.
Many players guess New Orleans, but Louisiana's capital is Baton Rouge, about 130 km up the Mississippi to the northwest.
Sources: Wikipedia: New Orleans, Wikipedia: Jazz, Wikipedia: Baton Rouge, Louisiana