38 A BICENTENNIAL HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI 1 2 3 6 4 5 8 9 7 1 | The Coast George Hancock Harrison Jackson Pearl River Stone 2 | The Lower River Adams Amite Claiborne Franklin Jefferson Warren Wilkinson 3 | The Piney Woods Covington Forrest Greene Jefferson Davis Jones Lamar Lawrence Lincoln Marion Perry Pike Walthall Wayne 4 | The Capital Area Copiah Hinds Madison Rankin Simpson Yazoo 5 | East Central Clarke Jasper Kemper Lauderdale Leake Neshoba Newton Scott Smith 6 | The Delta Bolivar Coahoma Humphreys Issaquena Leflore Quitman Sharkey Sunflower Tallhatchie Tunica Washington 7 | The Clay Hills Attala Calhoun Carroll Chickasaw Choctaw Clay Grenada Holmes Lowndes Monroe Montgomery Noxubee Oktibbeha Webster Winston Yalobusha 8 | The Northeast Corner Alcorn Benton Itawamba Lee Pontotoc Prentiss Tippah Tishomingo Union 9 | North DeSoto Lafayette Marshall Panola Tate