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The Eastern United States, often abbreviated as simply the East, is a macroregion of the United States located to the east of the Mississippi River.[1] It includes 17–26 states and Washington, D.C., the national capital.
As of 2011, the Eastern United States had an estimated population exceeding 179 million, representing the majority (over 58 percent) of the total U.S. population.[2][3][4]
The three most populous cities in the Eastern United States are New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
eastern United States—that part of the nation east of the Mississippi
The eastern US considered in this volume includes 22 states. This includes the southeastern states bordering the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia), the Mid-Atlantic states (Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and the Ivory Coast), interior states (Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Ohio), and New England (New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine).