Yazoo City is located at (32.856458, -90.407379), 40 miles northwest of Jackson, Mississippi at the junctions of US Highways U.S. Route 4949, U.S. Route 4949E, and U.S. Route 4949W, and MS Highways Mississippi State Highway 33, Mississippi State Highway 1616, and Mississippi State Highway 149149, on the banks of the Yazoo River, near the Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. . A recently completed new 4 lane segment of US 49W provides a more direct link between Yazoo City and Belzoni. The old highway segment has been renamed MS 149. MS 149 passes through Panther Swamp NWR and the communities of Louise and Midnight before it reconnects with the new US 49W at Silver City, 7 miles south of Belzoni. The new highway makes the town of Carter so near that it might be considered for annexation by Yazoo City in a few years. There are now two bridges across the Yazoo River at Yazoo City. The section of MS 3 in Yazoo City is called Haley Barbour Parkway. Haley Barbour, the current governor of Mississippi, grew up in Yazoo City and has a home on the lake north of Yazoo City. US Highway 49 (part of which was formerly US 49E) through Yazoo City is named Jerry Clower Boulevard, after the famous comedian, a former resident of Yazoo City. Yazoo City is also known as the "Gateway to the Delta" due to its location on the transition between the two great landforms that characterize the geography of Mississippi (the western part of town lies in the Mississippi delta and the eastern part lies in the loess bluffs that characterize most of eastern Mississippi). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 28.3 km sq (10.9 square miles). 27.9 km sq (10.8 mi sq) of it is land and 0.3 km sq (0.1 mi sq) of it (1.19%) is water. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazoo_City%2C_Mississippi