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Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...
Lexington and Fayette County are completely merged in a unitary urban county government (UCG); Louisville and other cities within Jefferson County have also merged into a single metro government. However, under state law, both major cities retained their pre-merger classification [5] before the new scheme took effect. The General Assembly had ...
Canary Islands (Spain) - politically and culturally associated with Europe Faroe Islands (Denmark) Greenland (Denmark) - geographically a part of the continent of North America, politically and culturally associated with Europe.
The humid subtropical zone of the US South according to Trewartha is coloured yellow-green on this map: If using the Köppen climate classification with the 0 °C coldest-month isotherm, the subtropics extend from Martha's Vineyard, extreme SW Rhode Island, and most of Long Island to central Florida in the eastern states, include the southern ...
Besides the in Arctic and Subarctic (see above), few areas of any size in North America can be said to be uninhabited. Most of these are strict nature reserves or wilderness area protected by law. Among the largest of these are Improvement District No. 25, Alberta (4,601.52 square kilometres (1,776.66 sq mi) and Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park ...
Isle aux Dames (Island of the ladies) Isle aux Herbes (Island of the herbs) [10] LaFayette (for the Marquis de Lafayette) [11] Lamar County (named for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, former Confederate officer and U.S. Secretary of the Interior of French Huguenot descent) Lanett (for a settler named Lanet) [11] Lapine ("rabbit") [11]
The following islands are usually associated with Europe rather than North America, despite lying closer to Greenland than to Scandinavia: Iceland, world's 18th largest island; Jan Mayen; Svalbard Archipelago. Spitsbergen, world's 35th largest island; Nordaustlandet, world's 58th largest island; Edgeoya; Barentsoya
Kentucky (US: / k ə n ˈ t ʌ k i / ⓘ, UK: / k ɛ n-/), [5] [6] officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, [c] is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, and Missouri to the west.