Q:Information:  - The Natchez Trace Parkway (also known as the Natchez Trace or simply the Trace) is a National Parkway in the southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Old Natchez Trace and preserves sections of the original trail. Its central feature is a two-lane parkway road that extends 444 miles (715 km) from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville, Tennessee. Access to the parkway is limited, with more than fifty access points in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The southern end of the route is in Natchez at an intersection with Liberty Road, and the northern end is northeast of Fairview, Tennessee, in the suburban community of Pasquo, Tennessee, at an intersection with Tennessee 100. In addition to Natchez and Nashville, the larger cities along the route include Jackson and Tupelo, Mississippi, and Florence, Alabama.  - Mississippi Highway 30 is an eastwest corridor that runs from Oxford, Mississippi, at the western terminus to the Natchez Trace Parkway at the eastern terminus.  - Mississippi Highway 1 (MS 1) runs south from U.S. Highway 49 near Lula to U.S. Highway 61 south of Cary, roughly paralleling the Mississippi River. It travels approximately , serving Sharkey, Issaquena, Washington, Bolivar, and Coahoma Counties. The entire route is part of the Great River Road.  - Mississippi Highway 12 runs westeast from Mississippi Highway 1 west of Hollandale to State Route 18 at the Alabama state line northeast of Columbus.  - Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama is the 30th-most extensive and the 24th-most populous of the U.S. states. At nearly , Alabama has one of the nation's longest navigable inland waterways.  - Mississippi Highway 9 runs north -- south from Mississippi Highway 30 east of New Albany to Mississippi Highway 12 in Ackerman . It runs approximately 105 miles ( 169 km ) , serving Choctaw , Webster , Calhoun , Pontotoc , and Union counties .  - Oxford is a city in, and the county seat of, Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1837, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract.     After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'mississippi highway 9' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below.  Choices: - 1  - 12  - city  - community  - county  - county seat  - feature  - highway  - intersection  - limited  - nation  - parkway  - region  - road  - route  - state
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