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  2. Historical regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...

  3. Geology of North America - Wikipedia

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    The divisions of regional geology are drawn in different ways, but are usually outlined by a common geologic history, geographic vicinity or political boundaries. The regional geology of North America usually encompasses the geographic regions of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, the continental United States, Mexico, Central America, and the ...

  4. List of regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.

  5. Geography of North America - Wikipedia

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    R. C. West et al., Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples (3d ed. 1989) T. L. McKnight, Regional Geography of the United States and Canada (1992) S. Birdsall, Regional Landscapes of the United States and Canada (4th rev. ed. 1992) T. Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (2001)

  6. High Plains (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The High Plains ecology region is designated by 25 on this map. Childress County, Texas, June 1938.. The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains, mainly in the Western United States, but also partly in the Midwest states of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains.

  7. Piedmont (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Piedmont region in the Appalachian Highlands. The Piedmont (/ ˈ p iː d m ɒ n t / PEED-mont) [1] is a plateau region located in the Eastern United States.It is situated between the Atlantic Plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains, stretching from New York in the north to central Alabama in the south.

  8. Geology of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Appalachian region was a passive plate margin, not unlike today's Atlantic Coastal Plain Province. During this interval, the region was periodically submerged beneath shallows seas. Thick layers of sediment and carbonate rock was deposited on the shallow sea bottom when the region was submerged. When seas receded, terrestrial sedimentary ...

  9. Category:Regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Regions of North America. It includes a region that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Regions of the United States .