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A video of the Eastern United States taken by the crew of Expedition 29 from the International Space Station as it passed over the region in 2011 A map of the Eastern United States. The Eastern United States, often abbreviated as simply the East, is a macroregion of the United States located to the east of the Mississippi River. [1] It includes ...
Division 2: Middle Atlantic (New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania) Region 2: Midwest (designated as the North Central Region before June 1984) [8] Division 3: East North Central (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin) Division 4: West North Central (Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota) Region ...
The Northeastern United States(also referred to as the Northeast, the East Coast,[b]or the American Northeast) is one of the four census regionsdefined by the United States Census Bureau. Located on the Atlantic coastof North America, the region borders Canadato its north, the Southern United Statesto its south, the Midwestern United Statesto ...
The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean. The Thirteen Colonies, which formed the United States in 1776 were located on this coast, and it has played an important role ...
The Piedmont region in the Appalachian Highlands. The Piedmont / ˈ p iː d m ɒ n t / [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.
Appalachia (/ ˌæpəˈlætʃə, - leɪtʃə, - leɪʃə /) [ 4 ] is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. Its boundaries stretch from the western Catskill Mountains of New York into Pennsylvania, continuing on through the Blue Ridge Mountains and Great Smoky ...
The physiographic regions of the contiguous United States comprise 8 divisions, 25 provinces, and 85 sections. [1] The system dates to Nevin Fenneman 's report Physiographic Divisions of the United States, published in 1916. [2] [3] The map was updated and republished by the Association of American Geographers in 1928. [4]
The Mid-Atlantic is a region of the United States located in the overlap between the Northeastern and Southeastern states of the United States.Its exact definition differs upon source, but the region typically includes New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, with other sources including or excluding other states or areas in the Northeast and Southeast, most common among them being Delaware ...