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Even with certain states and areas in the Southeast doing well economically, many Southeast states and areas still have a high poverty rate when compared to the U.S. nationally. In 2017, seven Southeast states were in the top ten nationwide when it came to having the highest poverty rate. [21]
[21] [22] As defined by the United States Census Bureau, [1] the Southern region of the United States includes sixteen states and the District of Columbia. As of 2010, an estimated 114,555,744 people, or thirty-seven percent of all U.S. residents, lived in the South, the nation's most populous region. [ 23 ]
name = Southeast USA.png Name used in the default map caption; image = Southeast USA.png The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 36.94 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 24.25 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -94.85 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = -75.25
The Mid-South is an informally-defined region of the United States in the Southern United States, usually thought to be anchored by the Memphis metropolitan area. Exact definitions vary widely and consist of at least West Tennessee , North Mississippi , Northeast Arkansas , Southern Missouri and Missouri Bootheel at a minimum. [ 2 ]
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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 term "United States," when used in the geographic sense, refers to the contiguous United States (sometimes referred to as the Lower 48, including the District of Columbia not as a state), Alaska, Hawaii, the five insular territories of Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and minor outlying possessions. [1]