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Missouri (see pronunciation) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. [6] Ranking 21st in land area, it borders Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west.
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 3: South
The first recorded use of the term Midwestern to refer to a region of the central U.S. occurred in 1886; Midwest appeared in 1894, and Midwesterner in 1916. [125] [126] One of the earliest late-19th-century uses of Midwest was in reference to Kansas and Nebraska to indicate that they were the civilized areas of the west. [10]
The term heartland often invokes imagery of rural areas, such as this wheat field in Kansas. Iowa terrain. The heartland, when referring to a cultural region of the United States, is the central land area of the country, [1] usually the Midwestern United States [2] or the states that do not border the Atlantic or Pacific oceans, [3] associated with mainstream or traditional values, such as ...
The Mid-South is an informally-defined region of the United States, usually thought to be anchored by the Memphis metropolitan area. Exact definitions vary widely and consist of at least West Tennessee , North Mississippi , Northeast Arkansas , Southern Missouri and Missouri Bootheel at a minimum. [ 2 ]
The West North Central states form one of the nine geographic subdivisions within the United States that are officially recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau.. Seven states compose the division: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota and it makes up the western half of the United States Census Bureau's larger region of the Midwest, the eastern half of which ...
Ohio is a crossroad of several regions, and new polling from Emerson College shows some Ohioans think where they live is in the South or Appalachia.
The third region, the lowlands of the south-east and part of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, has an area of some 3,000-square-mile (7,800 km 2). It is an undulating country, for the most part well drained, but swampy in its lowest portions.