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Lake Charles

City in southwestern Louisiana, USA, on the Calcasieu River, 300 km/186 mi west of New Orleans; seat of Calcasieu Parish; population (2000) 71,800. It is a port of entry on the Gulf of Mexico via a deep-water channel (completed in 1926) in the Calcasieu River. Most of the city's industries are related to the area's oil and gas resources; they include chemicals, oil refining, plastics, and synthetic rubber. Lake Charles is also a distribution centre for the region's major crop, rice.

Lake Charles was settled in 1781 and incorporated as a city in 1904; it is the seat of McNeese State University (1938). Sulphur mines, associated with the oil resources, are located nearby.
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