West Tennessee
Grand Division
Clockwise, from top left: The Memphis Pyramid, Graceland, Beale Street, Pinson Mounds, Shiloh National Military Park, Reelfoot Lake
Nickname(s):  West TN, West Tenn.
The counties of Tennessee highlighted in red that are designated part of West Tennessee.
Country	United States
State	Tennessee
Largest city	Memphis
Area
• Land	27,600 km2 (10,650 sq mi)
Population  (2020)	1,557,649
• Density	56.47/km2 (146.26/sq mi)
Demonym	West Tennessean

West Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is mostly the western part of the state.^[1] The area includes 21 counties between the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers.^[2] Its geography consists primarily of flat lands with rich soil and vast floodplain areas of the Mississippi River.^[1][3] Of the three regions, West Tennessee is the most sharply defined geographically, and is the lowest-lying.^[4] It is both the least populous and smallest by land area, of the three Grand Divisions. Its biggest city is Memphis, the state's second most populated city.

There are 21 counties in West Tennessee.

v t e State of Tennessee
Nashville (capital)
Topics	Name History Geography Tennesseans Constitution Governors Lieutenant Governors General Assembly	Seal of Tennessee
Grand Divisions	East Tennessee Middle Tennessee West Tennessee
Regions	Blue Ridge Mountains Cumberland Mountains Cumberland Plateau Great Appalachian Valley Highland Rim Mississippi Plain Nashville Basin Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians Tennessee Valley Tri-Cities
Largest cities	Nashville Memphis Knoxville Chattanooga Clarksville Murfreesboro Franklin Johnson City Jackson Hendersonville
Counties	Anderson Bedford Benton Bledsoe Blount Bradley Campbell Cannon Carroll Carter Cheatham Chester Claiborne Clay Cocke Coffee Crockett Cumberland Davidson Decatur DeKalb Dickson Dyer Fayette Fentress Franklin Gibson Giles Grainger Greene Grundy Hamblen Hamilton Hancock Hardeman Hardin Hawkins Haywood Henderson Henry Hickman Houston Humphreys Jackson Jefferson Johnson Knox Lake Lauderdale Lawrence Lewis Lincoln Loudon Macon Madison Marion Marshall Maury McMinn McNairy Meigs Monroe Montgomery Moore Morgan Obion Overton Perry Pickett Polk Putnam Rhea Roane Robertson Rutherford Scott Sequatchie Sevier Shelby Smith Stewart Sullivan Sumner Tipton Trousdale Unicoi Union Van Buren Warren Washington Wayne Weakley White Williamson Wilson