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West Tennessee is one of the three major regions (called Grand Divisions) of the state of Tennessee and comprises 21 of the 95 Tennessee counties.

The division is part of the eastern basin of the Lower Mississippi River and is the lowest-lying of the three divisions. With the exception of Hardin County which is bisected by the Tennessee River, and a small part of western Tipton County which was separated by an 1897 course change of the Mississippi River, the division's western and eastern boundaries are the Mississippi River and the western Tennessee River Valley respectively.

The states of Kentucky and Mississippi provide the respective northern and southern boundaries, with the exception of a portion of Lauderdale County, Alabama, which lies southeast of Hardin County. (ref needed).

West Tennessee consists primarily of flat lands that have rich soil and vast floodplain areas for the Mississippi River; and is the lowest-lying of the three divisions with the lowest point in the state close to the Mississippi state line.

As part of the Mississippi River basin, West Tennessee enjoys rich soil that led to large-scale cotton farming during the antebellum period and remains agriculturally significant today.