List of regions of the United States

This is a list of some of the ways regions are defined in the United States. Many regions are defined in law or regulations by the federal government; others by shared culture and history, and others by economic factors.

Interstate regions

Census Bureau–designated regions and divisions

U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions

Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", and is the most commonly used classification system.

• Region 1: Northeast
  • Division 1: New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont)
  • Division 2: Middle Atlantic (New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania)
• Region 2: Midwest (designated as the North Central Region before June 1984)
  • 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
  • Division 5: South Atlantic (Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia)
  • Division 6: East South Central (Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee)
  • Division 7: West South Central (Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas)
• Region 4: West
  • Division 8: Mountain (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming)
  • Division 9: Pacific (Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington)

Puerto Rico and other US territories are not part of any census region or census division.

Federal Reserve Banks

Federal Reserve System districts

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 divided the country into twelve districts with a central Federal Reserve Bank in each district. These twelve Federal Reserve Banks together form a major part of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. Missouri is the only U.S. state to have two Federal Reserve locations within its borders, but several other states are also divided between more than one district.

1. Boston
2. New York
3. Philadelphia
4. Cleveland
5. Richmond
6. Atlanta
7. Chicago
8. St. Louis
9. Minneapolis
10. Kansas City
11. Dallas
12. San Francisco

Time zones

U.S. time zones (some U.S. time zones are not on this map)

• UTC−12:00 (Baker Island, Howland Island)
• Samoa Time Zone (American Samoa, Jarvis Island, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Palmyra Atoll)
• Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone (Hawaii, Aleutian Islands (Alaska), Johnston Atoll)
• Alaska Time Zone (Alaska, excluding Aleutian Islands)
• Pacific Time Zone
• Arizona Time Zone (excluding the Navajo Nation)
• Mountain Time Zone (excluding most parts of Arizona)
• Central Time Zone
• Eastern Time Zone
• Atlantic Time Zone (Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands)
• Chamorro Time Zone (Guam, Northern Mariana Islands)
• Wake Island Time Zone (Wake Island)

Courts of Appeals circuits

U.S. Courts of Appeals circuits

• First Circuit
• Second Circuit
• Third Circuit
• Fourth Circuit
• Fifth Circuit
• Sixth Circuit
• Seventh Circuit
• Eighth Circuit
• Ninth Circuit
• Tenth Circuit
• Eleventh Circuit
• D.C. Circuit

The Federal Circuit is not a regional circuit. Its jurisdiction is nationwide but based on the subject matter.

Agency administrative regions

In 1969, the Office of Management and Budget published a list of ten "Standard Federal Regions", to which federal agencies could be restructured as a means of standardizing government administration nationwide. Despite a finding in 1977 that this restructuring did not reduce administrative costs as initially expected, and the complete rescinding of the standard region system in 1995, several agencies continue to follow the system, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Regions and office locations

Regions of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Region I

Office location: Boston

States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont

Region II

Office location: New York City

States: New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands

Region III

Office location: Philadelphia

States: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia

Region IV

Office location: Atlanta

States: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee

Region V

Office location: Chicago

States: Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin

Region VI

Office location: Dallas

States: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas

Region VII

Office location: Kansas City

States: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska

Region VIII

Office location: Denver

States: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming

Region IX

Office location: San Francisco

States: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa

Region X

Office location: Seattle

States: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington

Bureau of Economic Analysis regions

Bureau of Economic Analysis regions

The Bureau of Economic Analysis defines regions for comparison of economic data.

• New England: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont
• Mideast: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.
• Great Lakes: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin
• Plains: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota
• Southeast: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia
• Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas
• Rocky Mountain: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming
• Far West: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington

Unofficial regions

Multi-state regions

• American Frontier
• Appalachia
• Ark-La-Tex
• Auto Alley
• Backcountry
• Black Dirt Region
• Border states:
  • Civil War border states
  • International border states
• The Californias
• Calumet Region
• The Carolinas
• Cascadia^{[citation needed]}
• Central United States
• Coastal states
• Colorado Plateau
• Columbia Basin
• Contiguous United States
• The Dakotas
• Deep South
• Deseret
• Delmarva Peninsula
• Dixie
• Dixie Alley
• Driftless Area
• East Coast
• Eastern United States
• Flyover country
• Four Corners
• Great American Desert
• Great Appalachian Valley
• Great Basin
• Great Lakes Region
• Great Plains
• Gulf Coast
• Heartland
• High Plains
• Interior Plains
• Intermountain States
• Kentuckiana
• Llano Estacado
• Lower 48
• Michiana
• Mid-Atlantic states
• Middle America
• Mid-South states
• Midwestern United States
• Mississippi Delta
• Mojave Desert
• Mormon Corridor
• New England
  • Northern New England
  • Southern New England
• Nickajack
• North Woods
• Northeastern United States
• Northern United States
• Northwestern United States
• Ohio Valley
• Old South
• Old Southwest
• Ozarks
• Pacific Northwest
  • Inland Northwest
• Palouse
• Piedmont
• Piney Woods
• Rocky Mountains
  • Southern Rocky Mountains
• Siouxland
• Southeastern United States
• Southern United States
• Southwestern United States
• Tidewater
• Tornado Alley
• Trans-Appalachia
• Trans-Mississippi
• Twin Tiers
• Upland South
• Upper Midwest
• Virginias
• Waxhaws
• West Coast
• Western United States

Multi-territory regions

• Mariana Islands (Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands)
• Samoan Islands (American Samoa, except Swains Island)
• Virgin Islands (the Spanish Virgin Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands)

The Belts

• Bible Belt
• Black Belt
• Borscht Belt
• Coal Belt
• Corn Belt
• Cotton Belt
• Fruit Belt
• Great bison belt
• Pine Belt
• Pretzel Belt
• Rice Belt
• Rust Belt
• Salt Belt
• Snowbelt
• Stroke Belt
• Sun Belt
• Unchurched Belt

Interstate megalopolises

• Arizona Sun Corridor
• California
• Cascadia
• Great Lakes
• Gulf Coast
• Northeast
• Piedmont Atlantic
• Southern Rocky Mountain Front

Interstate metropolitan areas

• Central Savannah River Area (part of Georgia and South Carolina)
• Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area (Washington, D.C. and parts of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania)
  • Washington metropolitan area (District of Columbia and parts of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia)
• Greater Boston (parts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire)
• Charlotte metropolitan area (parts of North Carolina and South Carolina)
• Chattanooga Metropolitan Area
• Chicago metropolitan area (parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin)
• Cincinnati metropolitan area (parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky)
• Columbus-Auburn-Opelika (GA-AL) Combined Statistical Area (parts of Georgia and Alabama)
• Delaware Valley (parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland)
• Evansville, IN–KY Metropolitan Statistical Area (parts of Indiana and Kentucky)
• Fargo–Moorhead (parts of North Dakota and Minnesota)
• Fort Smith metropolitan area (parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma)
• Front Range Urban Corridor (parts of Colorado and Wyoming)
• Greater Grand Forks (part of Minnesota and North Dakota)
• Hartford-Springfield (parts of Connecticut and Massachusetts)
• Kansas City metropolitan area (parts of Missouri and Kansas)
• Louisville metropolitan area (Kentuckiana) (parts of Kentucky and Indiana)
• Memphis metropolitan area (parts of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi)
• Michiana (parts of Michigan and Indiana)
• Minneapolis–Saint Paul (the Twin Cities) (parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin)
• New York metropolitan area (parts of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania)
• Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area (parts of Nebraska and Iowa)
• Portland metropolitan area (parts of Oregon and Washington)
• Quad Cities (parts of Iowa and Illinois)
• Sacramento metropolitan area (parts of California and Nevada)
• Greater St. Louis (parts of Missouri and Illinois)
• Texarkana metropolitan area (parts of Texas and Arkansas)
• Tri-Cities (parts of Tennessee and Virginia)
• Twin Ports (Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin)
• Hampton Roads region (parts of Virginia and North Carolina)
• Youngstown–Warren–Boardman metropolitan statistical area (parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania)

Intrastate and intraterritory regions

Alabama

A map of regions of Alabama

Regions of Alabama include:

• Alabama Gulf Coast
• Canebrake
• Greater Birmingham
• Black Belt
• Central Alabama
• Lower Alabama
• Mobile Bay
• North Alabama
• Northeast Alabama
• Northwest Alabama
• South Alabama

Alaska

Southeast Alaska, also known as the Alaska Panhandle

Regions of Alaska include:

• Alaska Interior
• Alaska North Slope
• Alaska Panhandle
• Aleutian Islands
• Arctic Alaska
• Gold Belt
• The Bush
• Kenai Peninsula
• Matanuska-Susitna Valley
• Seward Peninsula
• Southcentral Alaska
• Southwest Alaska
• Tanana Valley
• Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

American Samoa

American Samoa

Regions of American Samoa include:

• Manu'a Islands
  • Ofu-Olosega
  • Ta'ū
• Rose Atoll
• Swains Island
• Tutuila and Aunu'u

Arizona

The Arizona Strip

Regions of Arizona include:

• Arizona Strip
• Dinetah
• Grand Canyon
• North Central Arizona
• Northeast Arizona
• Northern Arizona
• Phoenix metropolitan area
• Southern Arizona

Arkansas

Regions of Arkansas

Regions of Arkansas include:

• Arkansas Delta
• Arkansas River Valley
• Arkansas Timberlands
• Central Arkansas
• Crowley's Ridge
• Northwest Arkansas
• South Arkansas

California

Colorado

An enlargeable map of the Front Range Urban Corridor of Colorado and Wyoming

Regions of Colorado include:

• Central Colorado (part of Southern Rocky Mountains)
• Colorado Eastern Plains (part of High Plains)
• Colorado Mineral Belt (part of Southern Rocky Mountains)
• Colorado Piedmont (parts of the Front Range Urban Corridor and Colorado High Plains)
• Colorado Plateau (multi-state region)
• Colorado Western Slope (parts of Southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau)
• Denver Metropolitan Area (part of Front Range Urban Corridor)
• Four Corners Region (multi-state region of Colorado Plateau)
• Front Range Urban Corridor (multi-state region)
• High Plains (multi-state region of Great Plains)
• Mesa Verde
• North Central Colorado Urban Area (part of Front Range Urban Corridor)
• Northwestern Colorado (part of Southern Rocky Mountains)
• San Luis Valley
• South-Central Colorado
• South Central Colorado Urban Area (part of Front Range Urban Corridor)
• Southern Rocky Mountains (multi-state region of Rocky Mountains)
• Southwestern Colorado (parts of Southern Rocky Mountains and Colorado Plateau)

Connecticut

Map highlighting the nine regions of Connecticut

Connecticut has nine official planning regions, which operate as councils of governments and are recognized as county equivalents by the U.S. Census Bureau. The nine regions are:

• Capitol Region
• Greater Bridgeport
• Lower Connecticut River Valley
• Naugatuck Valley
• Northeastern Connecticut
• Northwest Hills
• South Central Connecticut
• Southeastern Connecticut
• Western Connecticut

Some of Connecticut's informal regions include:

• Coastal Connecticut
• Connecticut panhandle/Gold Coast
• Farmington Valley
• Housatonic Valley
• Litchfield Hills
• Quiet Corner

Delaware

The Delaware Valley, also known as metropolitan Philadelphia

Regions of Delaware include:

• "Upstate" or "Up North":
  • Delaware Valley, also known as "Above the Canal" (referring to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal)

"Slower Lower":

• • Cape Region
  • Central Kent
  • Delaware coast

District of Columbia

Florida

The First Coast

The Florida Panhandle

Directional regions of Florida include:

• Central Florida
• East Florida
• North Central Florida
• North Florida
• Northwest Florida
• Northeast Florida
• South Florida
• Southwest Florida
• West Florida

Local vernacular regions of Florida include:

• Big Bend
• Emerald Coast
• First Coast
• Florida Heartland
• Florida Keys
• Florida Panhandle
• Forgotten Coast
• Glades
• Gold Coast
• Halifax area (also Surf Coast and Fun Coast)
• Red Hills
• Nature Coast
• Space Coast
• Suncoast
• Tampa Bay Area
• Treasure Coast

Georgia

Regions of Georgia include:

• Atlanta metropolitan area
• Central Georgia
• Central Savannah River Area
• Colonial Coast
• Gold Belt
• Golden Isles of Georgia
• North Georgia
• North Georgia mountains (Northeast Georgia)
• Southern Rivers
• Southeast Georgia
• Wiregrass Region

Physiographic regions

Physiographic regions of Georgia include:

• Appalachian Plateau
• Blue Ridge Mountains
• Coastal Plain
• Piedmont
• Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians

Guam

Regions of Guam include:

• Cocos Island
• Guam (main island)
  • Ritidian Point
  • Tumon

Hawaii

Hawaiian archipelago

Hawaiian Islands

Regions of Hawaii include:

• Hawaiʻi Island (Big Island)
  • Hamakua Coast
  • Kaʻū Desert
  • Kohala Coast
  • Kona Coast
  • Mauna Kea
  • Puna District
  • Waiākea-Uka
• Kahoʻolawe
• Kauaʻi
  • Nā Pali Coast
• Kaʻula
• Lānai
• Maui
  • Haleakalā
  • Molokini
  • West Maui Mountains
    • Iao Valley
• Molokaʻi
  • Kalaupapa Peninsula
• Niʻihau
  • Lehua
• Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
  • Nihoa (Moku Manu)
  • Necker Island (Mokumanamana)
  • French Frigate Shoals (Kānemiloha)
  • Gardner Pinnacles (Pūhāhonu)
  • Maro Reef (Nalukākala)
  • Laysan (Kauō)
  • Lisianski (Papaāpoho)
  • Pearl and Hermes (Holoikauaua)
  • Kure Atoll (Mokupāpapa)
• Oʻahu
  • Kaʻena Point
  • Makapuʻu
  • North Shore
  • Waikīkī

Idaho

The Idaho Panhandle

Regions of Idaho include:

• Central Idaho
• Eastern Idaho
• Idaho Panhandle
• Magic Valley
• North Central Idaho
• Palouse Hills
• Southern Idaho
• Southwestern Idaho
• Treasure Valley

Illinois

Southern Illinois, also known as "Little Egypt"

Regions of Illinois include:

• Central Illinois
• Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area
• Chicago metropolitan area
  • Community areas in Chicago
  • Fox Valley
  • The Collar Counties
  • North Shore
• Driftless Area
• Forgottonia
• Metro-East
  • American Bottom
  • River Bend
• Metro Lakeland
• Military Tract of 1812
• Northern Illinois
• Northwestern Illinois
• Peoria, Illinois metropolitan area
• Quad Cities
• Rock River Valley
• Shawnee Hills
• Southern Illinois (sometimes, Little Egypt)
• Tri-State Area
• Wabash Valley

Indiana

Regions of Indiana

Regions of Indiana include:

• East Central Indiana
• Indianapolis metropolitan area
• Michiana
• Northern Indiana
• Northwest Indiana
• Southern Indiana
• Southwestern Indiana
• Wabash Valley

Iowa

Regions of Iowa

Regions of Iowa include:

• Coteau des Prairies
• Des Moines metropolitan area
• Dissected Till Plains
• Driftless Area
• Great River Road
• Honey Lands
• Iowa Great Lakes
• Loess Hills
• Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area
• Quad Cities
• Siouxland

Kansas

Regions of Kansas include:

• East-Central Kansas
• Golden Triangle
• Flint Hills
• High Plains
• Kansas City Metropolitan Area
• Missouri Rhineland
• North Central Kansas
• Osage Plains
• Ozarks
• Red Hills
• Santa Fe Trail
• Smoky Hills
• Southeast Kansas

Kentucky

Regions of Kentucky include:

• Bluegrass
• Cumberland Plateau or Eastern Coal Field
• Jackson Purchase
• Pennyroyal Plateau
• Western Coal Field

Louisiana

Regions of Louisiana

Regions of Louisiana include:

• Acadiana

• Cajun Heartland
• River Parishes

• Central Louisiana (Cen-La)
• Florida Parishes
• "French Louisiana" (Acadiana and Greater New Orleans)
• Greater New Orleans
• North Louisiana
• Southwest Louisiana

Maine

Regions of Maine include:

• Acadia
• Down East
• High Peaks / Maine Highlands
• Hundred-Mile Wilderness
• Kennebec Valley
• Maine Highlands
• Maine Lake Country
• Maine North Woods
• Mid Coast
• Penobscot Bay
• Southern Maine Coast
• Western Maine Mountains

Maryland

Regions of Maryland

Regions of Maryland include:

• Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area
• Capital region
• Chesapeake Bay
• Eastern Shore of Maryland
• Patapsco Valley
• Southern Maryland
• Western Maryland

Regions of Maryland shared with other states include:

• Allegheny Mountains
• Atlantic coastal plain
• Blue Ridge Mountains
• Cumberland Valley
• Delaware Valley
• Delmarva Peninsula consists of Maryland's and Virginia's Eastern Shore and all of Delaware
• Piedmont (United States)
• Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians

Massachusetts

The Berkshires region of Massachusetts

Regions of Massachusetts include:

• Central Massachusetts
  • MetroWest
  • Montachusett-North County
  • South County
  • Blackstone River Valley
• Northeastern Massachusetts
  • North Shore
    • Merrimack Valley
    • Cape Ann
  • Greater Boston
• Southeastern Massachusetts
  • Cape Cod and Islands
    • Cape Cod
    • Martha's Vineyard
    • Nantucket
  • South Coast
  • South Shore
• Western Massachusetts
  • The Berkshires (shown in map)
  • Housatonic Valley
  • Pioneer Valley
  • Quabbin-Swift River Valley

Michigan

Regions of Michigan

Regions of Michigan include:

Lower Peninsula

• Northern Michigan
  • Traverse Bay Area
  • Straits Area
• Central/Mid-Michigan
  • The Thumb
  • Bluewater Area
  • Tri-Cities
  • Capital Region
• West Michigan
  • Southwest Michigan
  • Michiana
  • Grand Rapids area
• Southeast Michigan
  • Metro Detroit

Upper Peninsula

• Western Upper Peninsula
  • Copper Country
    • Copper Island
• Central Upper Peninsula
  • US 41 Corridor
• Eastern Upper Peninsula
  • Straits Area
  • Soo Area

Minnesota

Regions of Minnesota

Regions of Minnesota include:

• Arrowhead Region
• Boundary Waters
• Buffalo Ridge
• Central Minnesota
• Coulee Region
• Iron Range
• Minnesota River Valley
• North Shore
• Northwest Angle
• Pipestone Region
• Red River Valley
• Southeast Minnesota
• Twin Cities Metro

Mississippi

Regions of Mississippi include:

• Mississippi Alluvial Plain
• Mississippi Delta
• Mississippi Gulf Coast
• Natchez Trace
• Yazoo lands

Missouri

The Missouri Bootheel

Regions of Missouri include:

• Boonslick
• Bootheel
• Dissected Till Plains
• Kansas City Metropolitan Area
• Lead Belt
• Little Dixie
• Ozarks
• Platte Purchase
• St. Louis Metropolitan Area

Montana

Regions of Montana include:

• Big Horn Mountains
• Eastern Montana
• Glacier Country
• Glacier National Park
• Regional designations of Montana
• The Flathead
• Two Medicine
• Western Montana
• Yellowstone National Park

Nebraska

The Nebraska Panhandle

Regions of Nebraska include:

• Nebraska Panhandle
• Pine Ridge
• Rainwater Basin
• Sand Hills
• Wildcat Hills

Nevada

Regions of Nevada include:

• Black Rock Desert
• Lake Tahoe
• Las Vegas Valley
• Mojave Desert
• Pahranagat Valley
• Sierra Nevada

New Hampshire

Regions of New Hampshire include:

• Connecticut River Valley
• Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Region (overlaps with Connecticut River Valley)
• Great North Woods Region
• Lakes Region
• Merrimack Valley
  • Golden Triangle
• Monadnock Region (overlaps with Connecticut River Valley)
• Seacoast Region
• White Mountains

New Jersey

Regions of New Jersey include:

• Central Jersey
  • Bayshore
  • Jersey Shore
  • Shore Region
• North Jersey
  • Skylands
    • Amwell Valley
    • Black Dirt Region (shared with New York)
    • Great Valley
    • Hunterdon Plateau
    • Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians
    • Highlands
    • Somerset Hills
    • The Sourlands
  • Gateway
    • Chemical Coast/Soundshore
    • Hudson Waterfront
      • North Hudson
    • Meadowlands
    • Pascack Valley
    • Raritan Bayshore
    • West Hudson
• South Jersey
  • Shore Region
  • New Jersey Pine Barrens
  • Delaware Valley
  • Southern Shore
    • Cape May

New Mexico

Regions of New Mexico include:

• Central New Mexico
• Eastern New Mexico
• New Mexico Bootheel
• Northern New Mexico

New York

Regions of New York states as defined by the Empire State Development Corporation Regions of New York

The ten regions of New York, as defined by the Empire State Development Corporation:

• Capital District – counties : Albany, Columbia, Greene, Warren, Washington, Saratoga, Schenectady, Rensselaer
• Central New York – counties: Cortland, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oswego, Madison
• Finger Lakes – counties: Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming, Monroe, Livingston, Wayne, Ontario, Yates, Seneca
• Hudson Valley – counties: Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester
• Long Island – counties: Nassau, Suffolk
• Mohawk Valley – counties: Oneida, Herkimer, Fulton, Montgomery, Otsego, Schoharie
• New York City – counties (boroughs): New York (Manhattan), Bronx (The Bronx), Queens (Queens), Kings (Brooklyn), Richmond (Staten Island)
• North Country – counties : St. Lawrence, Lewis, Jefferson, Hamilton, Essex, Clinton, Franklin
• Southern Tier – counties: Steuben, Schuyler, Chemung, Tompkins, Tioga, Chenango, Broome, Delaware
• Western New York – counties: Niagara, Erie, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Allegany

Regions of New York state include:

• Downstate New York
  • New York metropolitan area (New York City)
  • Long Island
    • East End
    • The Hamptons
    • North Shore (Gold Coast)
    • South Shore
• Upstate New York
  • Erie Canal Corridor
  • Western New York
    • Holland Purchase
    • Burned-over district
  • Finger Lakes
  • former Leatherstocking Country (now the Central New York Region)
  • Central New York
    • Central New York Military Tract
    • Phelps and Gorham Purchase
    • Syracuse metropolitan area
  • Mohawk Valley
  • Southern Tier
  • Capital District
  • North Country
    • Adirondack Mountains
      • Adirondack Park
    • Ski country
    • Thousand Islands
    • Tug Hill
  • Catskill Mountains
    • Borscht Belt
  • Hudson Valley
    • Shawangunk Ridge
    • Black Dirt Region (shared with New Jersey)

North Carolina

Regions of North Carolina

Regions of North Carolina include:

• Eastern North Carolina
  • Fayetteville Metropolitan Area
  • Inner Banks
    • Albemarle
    • Global TransPark Economic Development Area
    • Tidewater
  • Lower Cape Fear (Wilmington Area)
  • Outer Banks
    • Crystal Coast
      • Bogue Banks
      • Down East
  • Sandhills
• Central North Carolina
  • Piedmont Crescent
    • Metropolitan Charlotte (Metrolina)
      • Lake Norman Area
    • Metropolitan Piedmont Triad
      • Sauratown Mountains
      • Uwharrie Mountains
      • Yadkin Valley
  • The Research Triangle
    • New Hope Valley
• Western North Carolina
  • Foothills Region
    • South Mountains
    • The Unifour (Catawba Valley Area)
  • High Country (Boone Area)
  • Land of the Sky
    • Asheville Metropolitan Area
      • Great Craggy Mountains
    • Blue Ridge Mountains
      • Black Mountains
      • Brushy Mountains
      • Great Balsam Mountains
      • Unaka Mountains
      • Unicoi Mountains
    • Great Smoky Mountains
      • Tennessee Valley

North Dakota

Regions of North Dakota include:

• Badlands
• Drift Prairie
• Missouri Escarpment
• Missouri Plateau (Missouri Coteau in French)
• Red River Valley

Northern Mariana Islands

Northern Mariana Islands

Regions of the Northern Mariana Islands include:

• Northern Islands
  • Alamagan
  • Anatahan
  • Agrihan
  • Asuncion Island
  • Farallon de Medinilla
  • Farallon de Pajaros
  • Guguan
  • Maug Islands
  • Pagan
  • Sarigan
• Rota
• Saipan
• Tinian

Ohio

The Great Black Swamp region of Ohio

Regions of Ohio include:

• Allegheny Plateau
• Appalachian Ohio
• Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky metropolitan area
• Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area
• Connecticut Western Reserve (historic)
• Firelands
• Great Black Swamp (shared with Indiana)
• Knobs
• Lake Erie Islands
• Miami Valley
• Northeast Ohio (often used interchangeably with Greater Cleveland, but also includes the counties of Ashtabula, Portage, Summit, Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana.)
• Northwest Ohio
• Pennyroyal

Oklahoma

The Oklahoma Panhandle

Regions of Oklahoma include:

• Central Oklahoma
• Cherokee Outlet
• Green Country
• Choctaw Country
• Little Dixie
• Northwestern Oklahoma
• Panhandle
• South Central Oklahoma
• Southwestern Oklahoma

Oregon

The topography of Oregon

Oregon's High Desert

Regions of Oregon include:

• Cascade Range
• Central Oregon
• Columbia Plateau
• Columbia River
• Columbia River Gorge
• Eastern Oregon
• Goose Lake Valley
• Harney Basin
• High Desert
• Hood River Valley
• Mount Hood Corridor
• Northwest Oregon
• Oregon Coast
• Palouse
• Portland metropolitan area
• Rogue Valley
• Southern Oregon
• Treasure Valley
• Tualatin Valley
• Warner Valley
• Western Oregon
• Willamette Valley

Pennsylvania

Regions of Pennsylvania include:

• Allegheny National Forest
• Coal Region
• Cumberland Valley
• Delaware Valley
• Dutch Country
• Endless Mountains
• Highlands Region
• Laurel Highlands
• Lehigh Valley
• Lenapehoking
• Northern Tier
• Northeastern Pennsylvania
• Philadelphia Main Line
• Pittsburgh metropolitan area
• Slate Belt
• South Central Pennsylvania
• Susquehanna Valley
• The Poconos
• Western Pennsylvania
• Wyoming Valley

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Regions of Puerto Rico include:

• Caja de Muertos
• Culebra
• Desecheo Island
• Isla de Mona
• Puerto Rico (main island)
  • Cordillera Central
  • El Yunque
• Vieques

Rhode Island

Regions of Rhode Island include:

• Blackstone Valley
• Block Island
• East Bay
• West Bay
• South County

South Carolina

Regions of South Carolina include:

• The Lowcountry
• The Midlands
• The Upstate
• Travel/Tourism locations
  • Grand Strand
  • Lake Murray Country
  • The Lowcountry & Resort Islands
  • Old 96 District
  • Olde English District
  • Pee Dee
  • Santee Cooper Country

• Other geographical distinctions:
  • Blue Ridge Mountains
  • Charleston metropolitan area
  • Columbia metropolitan area
  • Dutch Fork
  • The Piedmont
  • The Sandhills
  • Sea Islands
  • West Ashley

South Dakota

East River and West River in South Dakota

Regions of South Dakota include:

• Badlands
• Black Hills
• Coteau des Prairies
• East River and West River, divided by the Missouri River

Tennessee

The Grand Divisions of Tennessee include:

• East Tennessee
• Middle Tennessee
• West Tennessee
• Other geographical distinctions:
  • Highland Rim
  • Nashville Basin
  • Tennessee Valley

Texas

The Texas Panhandle

Regions of Texas include:

• Apacheria
• Brazos Valley
• Central Texas
  • Texas blackland prairies
  • The Hill Country
• Comancheria
• Gulf Coast
  • Galveston Bay
  • Greater Houston
• East Texas
  • Piney Woods and Northeast Texas
• North Texas
  • Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex
  • Texoma
• South Texas
  • Rio Grande Valley
• Southeast Texas
  • Golden Triangle
  • Greater Houston
• Texas Midwest/West-Central Texas (includes Abilene, San Angelo, Brownwood, Texas)
• Texas Urban Triangle (Houston to San Antonio to Dallas-Fort Worth)
• West Texas
  • Concho Valley
  • Edwards Plateau
  • Llano Estacado (a portion of northwest Texas)
  • Permian Basin
  • South Plains (includes 24 counties south of the Texas Panhandle and north of the Permian Basin)
  • Texas Panhandle (pictured)
  • Trans-Pecos
  • Great Plains

U.S. Minor Outlying Islands

The United States Minor Outlying Islands (Navassa Island not on map)

Regions of United States Minor Outlying Islands include:

• Baker Island
• Howland Island
• Jarvis Island
• Johnston Island
• Kingman Reef
• Midway Atoll
• Navassa Island
• Palmyra Atoll
• Wake Island

U.S. Virgin Islands

Regions of United States Virgin Islands include:

• Saint Croix
• Saint John
• Saint Thomas

Utah

Regions of Utah include:

• Cache Valley
• Colorado Plateau
• Dixie
• Great Salt Lake Desert
• Mojave Desert
• San Rafael Swell
• Uinta Mountains
• Wasatch Back
• Wasatch Front
• Wasatch Range

Vermont

Regions of Vermont include:

• Burlington metropolitan area
• Champlain Valley
• Green Mountains
• Mount Mansfield
• Northeast Kingdom

Virginia

A map of the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia

Regions of Virginia include:

• Eastern Shore
• Greater Richmond Region
• Hampton Roads
• Historic Triangle
• Northern Neck
• Northern Virginia
• Piedmont region of Virginia
• Shenandoah Valley
• South Hampton Roads
• Southside Virginia
• Southwest Virginia
• Tidewater
• Tri-Cities
• Tsenacommacah
• Virginia Peninsula

Washington

Regions of Washington include:

• Central Washington
• Columbia Plateau
• Eastern Washington
• Kitsap Peninsula
• Long Beach Peninsula
• Okanogan Country
• Olympic Mountains
• Olympic Peninsula
• Puget Sound
• San Juan Islands
• Skagit Valley
• Southwest Washington
• Tri-Cities
• Walla Walla Valley
• Western Washington
• Yakima Valley

West Virginia

Regions of West Virginia include:

• Eastern Panhandle
• North Central West Virginia
• Northern Panhandle
• Potomac Highlands
• Southern West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wisconsin's five geographic regions

Wisconsin is divided into five geographic regions:

• Central Plain
• Eastern Ridges and Lowlands
• Lake Superior Lowland
• Northern Highland
• Western Upland

Wyoming

Regions of Wyoming include:

• Bighorn Basin
• Powder River Country

See also

• United States portal

• Geography of the United States
• Historic regions of the United States
• List of metropolitan areas of the United States
• Media market, e.g., Nielsen Designated Market Area
• Political divisions of the United States
• Regional stock exchanges of the United States
• United States territory
• Vernacular geography
• U.S. Caribbean region

Explanatory notes

1. This region also includes the Independent State of Samoa, which is not a part of the United States
2. This region also includes the British Virgin Islands, which is not a part of the United States
3. Claimed by Tokelau
4. Midway Atoll, part of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, is not politically part of Hawaii; it is one of the United States Minor Outlying Islands
5. Claimed by Haiti
6. Claimed by the Marshall Islands

References

1. "Statistical Groupings of States and Counties" (PDF). census.gov. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
2. United States Census Bureau, Geography Division. "Census Regions and Divisions of the United States" (PDF). Retrieved January 10, 2013.
3. "The National Energy Modeling System: An Overview 2003" (Report #: DOE/EIA-0581, October 2009). United States Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration.
4. "The most widely used regional definitions and follow those of the U.S. Bureau of the Census." Seymour Sudman and Norman M. Bradburn, Asking Questions: A Practical Guide to Questionnaire Design (1982). Jossey-Bass: p. 205.
5. "Perhaps the most widely used regional classification system is one developed by the U.S. Census Bureau." Dale M. Lewison, Retailing, Prentice Hall (1997): p. 384. ISBN 978-0-13-461427-4
6. "[M]ost demographic and food consumption data are presented in this four-region format." Pamela Goyan Kittler, Kathryn P. Sucher, Food and Culture, Cengage Learning (2008): p.475. ISBN 9780495115410
7. "Census Bureau Regions and Divisions with State FIPS Codes" (PDF). US Census Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 21, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2010.
8. "Census Bureau Regions and Divisions with State FIPS Codes" (PDF). US Census Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 21, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2010.
9. "Geographic Terms and Concepts - Census Divisions and Census Regions". US Census Bureau. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
10. "No DST in Most of Arizona". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
11. Standard Federal Regions, Office of Management and Budget, 1969, Circular A-105
12. Office of Management and Budget (August 17, 1977), Standardized Federal Regions: Little Effect on Agency Management of Personnel, Government Accountability Office, FPCD-77-39
13. 60 FR 15171
14. Williams, Dennis C. (March 1993), Why Are Our Regional Offices and Labs Located Where They Are? A Historical Perspective on Siting, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
15. HUD's Regions, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, September 20, 2017
16. "BEA Regions". Bureau of Economic Analysis. February 18, 2004. Retrieved December 27, 2012.
17. The World Factbook CIA World Factbook - American Samoa. Retrieved July 5, 2019.

External links

• U.S. Library of Congress Map of the US Regions