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Province in Canada is a loose analogy for state in the US, and obviously would create great confusion if the same word was used in two vastly different geographical classifications. As late as 1914, the terminology used by an AAG publication used the term "natural region" as the basic denomination of physiography.
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.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
Approximate map of the Nine Nations of North America with each of their capitals. New England – an expanded version including not only Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut (although omitting the southwestern portion of Connecticut within the New York metropolitan area), but also the Canadian Atlantic provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward ...
A physiographical map of the contiguous 48 states of the U.S. and indicating the age of the exposed surface and the type of terrain An aerial photo over northern Ohio; much of the central United States is covered by relatively flat, arable land. Within the continental U.S. there are eight distinct physiographic divisions.
All of the subdivisions can be coded by typing their ISO code in all lowercase letters, while all the nations (as a whole) can be coded by typing their ISO code in all uppercase letters. All of the states/provinces have been redrawn to show a more correct border, and are all about the same size in comparison with each other.
A map showing the contiguous United States and (in insets at the lower left) the two states that are not contiguous Map highlighting Alaska and Hawaii's geographical relationship to the contiguous United States. Alaska in red is in the upper part of the map, while Hawaii is the islands also in red to the far left.