Tawanta is an unincorporated community in Jones County, in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

[1] Tawanta was founded in 1882.

[1] The name "Tawanta" is purported to mean "wide, broad" in the Choctaw language.

[2] The community was once a flag station and is located on the Norfolk Southern Railway.

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