1. britannica.com

    3 days agoUnited States - Regions, Culture, Geography: The differences among America's traditional regions, or culture areas, tend to be slight and shallow as compared with such areas in most older, more stable countries. The muted, often subtle nature of interregional differences can be ascribed to the relative newness of American settlement, a perpetually high degree of mobility, a superb ...
  2. education.nationalgeographic.org

    Oct 30, 2024A region can be defined by natural or artificial features. Language, government, or religion can define a region, as can forests, wildlife, or climate. A common way of referring to regions in the United States is grouping them into 5 regions according to their geographic position on the continent: the Northeast, Southwest, West, Southeast, and ...
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    A culture area is a geographic region in which peoples share certain traits. The Southeast culture area covered what is now the southeastern United States. It extended from the southern edge of the Northeast culture area to the Gulf of Mexico. From east to west it stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to just west of the Mississippi River valley.
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    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.[4] [5] [6] [7]Region 1: Northeast Division 1: New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New ...
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    The Gulf Coast of the United States, also known as the Gulf South or the South Coast, is the coastline along the Southern United States where they meet the Gulf of Mexico.The coastal states that have a shoreline on the Gulf of Mexico are Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, and these are known as the Gulf States. [1]The economy of the Gulf Coast area is dominated by industries ...
  7. worldatlas.com

    Gulf Coast Of The United States. The Gulf Coast of the United States is a coastline area that consists of the southernmost states: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.Each of these states are located along the southern coast, and are known as the Gulf States since they border the Gulf of Mexico.Major Cities:Of the five states that sit along the Gulf Coast, there are a number of ...
  8. nap.nationalacademies.org

    The northern Gulf Coast was among the most ethno-linguistically diverse regions in aboriginal North America (Fogelson et al., 2004; Goddard & Sturtevant, 1996). Successive migrations of people in the Mississippian Period converged with those of other Indigenous peoples who were going to lands where the Mississippi River meets the Gulf ( Butler ...
  9. britannica.com

    Feb 3, 2025Gulf Coast, geographic area in the extreme southern United States along the northern portion of the Gulf of Mexico.Stretching in a large, flattened U shape for more than 1,200 miles (1,900 km), it extends about 100 miles (160 km) inland and runs north-northwest along western Florida; west along southern Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana; and southwest and south along southeastern Texas.
  10. worldatlas.com

    Jan 18, 2024Mississippi, located in the southeastern United States, shares its borders with Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and to the west there is Arkansas, Louisiana, and the Arkansas River.The state encompasses a total area of approximately 48,430 mi 2 (125,438 km 2).. From western Mississippi to eastern Mississippi, these are the 11 primary geographical ...
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