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  2. Eastern Kentucky Coalfield - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Kentucky Coalfield covers 31 counties with a combined land area of 13,370 sq mi (34,628 km 2), or about 33.1 percent of the state's land area.Its 2000 census population was 734,194 inhabitants, or about 18.2 percent of the state's population.

  3. Black Mountain (Kentucky) - Wikipedia

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    The summit of Black Mountain, August 2013 Black Mountain summit plaque. Route 160 east of Lynch and west of Appalachia crosses the mountain. The summit is reached by a narrow road that turns off to the right (coming from Lynch or to the left, if coming from Appalachia) at the Kentucky-Virginia line (the gap that is the highest part of Route 160) and leads past a Federal Aviation Administration ...

  4. Cumberland Plateau - Wikipedia

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    The Cumberland Plateau is a deeply dissected plateau, with topographic relief commonly of about 400 feet (120 metres), and frequent sandstone outcroppings and bluffs.. At Kentucky's Pottsville Escarpment, which is the transition from the Cumberland Plateau to the Bluegrass in the north and the Pennyrile in the south, there are many spectacular cliffs, gorges, rockhouses, natural bridges, and ...

  5. From extinct to tourism boom: Elk thrive atop reclaimed coal ...

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    Elk were reintroduced to the Eastern Kentucky mountains 30 years ago. Now, the hunters and eco-tourism they bring in is boosting the local economy.

  6. Spirits in the mountains: Explore moonshine and bourbon ... - AOL

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    Kentucky Mountain Moonshine sits on 600 acres in the Appalachia Mountains, and there are several hiking trails and a cave system on the grounds that are open to visitors. The distillery's ...

  7. Geography of Kentucky - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Red River Gorge - Wikipedia

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    The Red River Gorge is a canyon system on the Red River in east-central Kentucky, United States.Geologically it is part of the Pottsville Escarpment.. The gorge lies within the Daniel Boone National Forest and was subsequently designated the Red River Gorge Geological Area, an area of around 29,000 acres (12,000 ha; 120 km 2; 45 sq mi). [1]

  9. Kentucky has one of the most-feared (and scenic) routes in ...

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    Kentucky’s Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway — a 75-mile long state highway that stretches throughout the eastern part of the state — is among the most-feared roads in the nation, according to ...

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