Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers. 

Memphis had a population of 652,717 in 2016, making it the second largest city in the state of Tennessee after Nashville. The greater Memphis metropolitan area, including adjacent counties in Mississippi and Arkansas, had a 2014 population of 1,317,314. This makes Memphis the second-largest metropolitan area in Tennessee, surpassed by metropolitan Nashville. 

Memphis is the youngest of Tennessee's major cities, founded in 1819 as a planned city by a group of wealthy Americans including judge John Overton and future president Andrew Jackson. A resident of Memphis is referred to as a Memphian, and the Memphis region is known, particularly to media outlets, as Memphis and the Mid-South. 

Occupying a substantial bluff rising from the Mississippi River, the site of Memphis has been a natural location for human settlement by varying cultures over thousands of years. The area was known to be settled in the first millennium AD. by people of the Mississippian Culture, who had a network of communities throughout the Mississippi River Valley and its tributaries and built earthwork ceremonial and burial mounds. The historic Chickasaw Indian tribe, believed to be their descendants, later occupied the site. French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto encountered the Chickasaw tribe in that area, in the 16th century. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Does Memphis count as Tennessee's oldest major city?
2. Is Memphis the major city in Tennessee that has been around the longest?
3. Has Memphis existed for longer than any other major city in Tennessee?
Q2:
1. What county is Memphis the seat of?
2. For which county does Memphis serve as county seat?
3. What county has Memphis as its county seat?
Q3:
1. When was the Memphis area first settled?
2. When did settlers first arrive in the Memphis area?
3. In what year did settlers first get to Memphis?
Q4:
1. What is the location of Memphis?
2. Where in Tennessee can Memphis be found?
3. What part of Tennessee is Memphis in?
Q5:
1. What is the population of Memphis?
2. How many residents does Memphis have?
3. How many people are living in Memphis?
Q6:
1. What is the only Tennessee city bigger than Memphis?
2. Which city in Tennessee is the only one larger than Memphis?
3. What is the sole city in Tennessee that takes up more space in Memphis?
Q7:
1. Who was originally responsible for planning Memphis?
2. Who was the city planning of Memphis originally carried out by?
3. Who were the first city planners in Memphis?
Q8:
1. What were the names of some of the first men to plan the city of Memphis/
2. Who was one of the original city planners of Memphis?
3. What was the name of some of the first Memphis city planners?
Q9:
1. During the first CE millenium, what culture settled in Memphis?
2. Which people settled in Memphis during the first millenium CE?
3. What culture is known to have settlements in Memphis during the first millenium AD?
Q10:
1. What is a Memphis resident called?
2. What is the name for someone that lives in Memphis?
3. What do you call a resident of Memphis?
Q11:
1. What is the population of Memphis's greater metro area?
2. If you could the greater metropolitan area, what is Memphis's population?
3. How many residents does Memphis have, when counting the greater metro area?
Q12:
1. Where was the network of communities of the Mississippian culture?
2. What was the location of the network of communities belonging to the Mississippian culture?
3. Where did the Mississippian culture have a range of communities?
