Memphis is the largest city in the US state of Tennessee. It sits on the Mississippi River and grew as a port and a place of factories and trade. For a lot of people around the world, though, the first picture is music: Elvis Presley lived there and is buried there, and the city is famous for blues and rock and roll. Though actually, there is an older Memphis too — a great city of ancient Egypt — and the Tennessee city took its name from that one. In English, if someone just says “Memphis” with no extra words, they almost always mean the American city, especially when the talk is pop music, sport, or travel.