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Chattanooga Metropolitan Area; Chicago metropolitan area (parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin) Cincinnati metropolitan area (parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky) Columbus-Auburn-Opelika (GA-AL) Combined Statistical Area (parts of Georgia and Alabama) Delaware Valley (parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland)
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Founders Hall in June 2007. A wide variety of higher education institutions can be found in Chattanooga and nearby. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is the second largest campus of the University of Tennessee System, with a student population of over 11,587 as of 2017–18 school year. [271]
East Tennessee's major landforms. East Tennessee is located within three major geological divisions of the Appalachian Mountains: the Blue Ridge Mountains on the border with North Carolina in the east; the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians (usually called the "Great Appalachian Valley" or "Tennessee Valley" [a]) in the center; and the Cumberland Plateau in the west, part of which is in Middle ...
The three regions are geographically and culturally distinct. [9] East Tennessee's landscape is dominated by the Appalachian mountain chain, including the Great Smoky Mountains on the eastern border of the state, the ridge-and-valley region where East Tennessee's principal cities (Knoxville, Chattanooga, and the Tri-Cities) are located, and the rugged Cumberland Mountains.
I-75 enters Tennessee on the eastern side of East Ridge, a southern suburb of Chattanooga. Less than 0.5 miles (0.80 km) into Tennessee is an interchange with US 41 (unsigned US 76). About a mile (1.6 km) later, at exit 2, is a three-way interchange with the eastern terminus of I-24, which runs west into downtown Chattanooga and to Nashville ...
I-24 connects Paducah, Kentucky, at the mouth of the Tennessee River, with Chattanooga via Clarksville and Nashville. Much of this road's route in Kentucky and Tennessee actually lies outside the Tennessee Valley. I-26 is an east–west main route of the Interstate Highway System in the Northeast Tennessee.
U.S. Route 127 (US 127) in Tennessee is a 129.5-mile-long (208.4 km) United States Numbered Highway from Chattanooga to the Kentucky state line at Static. The highways connects through Dunlap, Pikeville, Crossville, and Jamestown. Throughout its length, US 127 straddles the line between East Tennessee and Middle Tennessee.
The East South Central region covers 183,401 square miles of land. Within the region, Tennessee is the largest state by population, though Alabama is the largest by land area; Tennessee was also the East South Central's fastest growing state between 2010 and 2020, [14] [15] with Alabama second. [16]