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Geography of Kentucky. Kentucky is situated in the Upland South region of the United States. [1] A significant portion of eastern Kentucky is part of Appalachia . Kentucky borders seven states, from the Midwest and the Southeast. West Virginia lies to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, Missouri to the west, Illinois to ...
Region 2: Midwest (designated as the North Central Region before June 1984) [8] 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.
Kentucky ( US: / kənˈtʌki / ⓘ kən-TUK-ee, UK: / kɛn -/ ken- ), [5] officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, [c] is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Kentucky borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, and Missouri to the ...
Geography of Missouri. Missouri, a state near the geographical center of the United States, has three distinct physiographic divisions : the Missouri portion of the Ozark Plateau (areas 14a and 14b) which lies between the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and the Central lowland. The boundary between the northern plains and the Ozark region follows ...
Carlisle. Fulton. Graves. Hickman. Marshall. McCracken. Today part of. Western Kentucky & West Tennessee. The Jackson Purchase, also known as the Purchase Region or simply the Purchase, is a region in the U.S. state of Kentucky bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Tennessee River to the east.
Paducah (/ p ə ˈ d uː k ə / pə-DOO-kə) is a home rule-class city in the Upland South, and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. [7] The largest city in the Jackson Purchase region, it is located in the Southeastern United States at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio rivers, halfway between St. Louis, Missouri, to the northwest and Nashville, Tennessee ...
Missouri. Missouri ( / mɪˈzʊəri / miz-OOR-ee) is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. [ 6] Ranking 21st in land area, it borders Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland ...
Kentucky – state located in the upper south United States of America, nicknamed the "Bluegrass State", due to the presence of bluegrass in many of the pastures throughout the state. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, in the East South Central region. Kentucky is the 37th largest state in terms of ...