WordNet
n. the region of the United States lying north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River [syn: East]
Wikipedia
The Eastern United States, commonly referred to as the American East or simply the East, is a region roughly coinciding with the boundaries of the United States established in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which bounded the new country to the west along the Mississippi River. It is geographically and culturally diverse, spanning the Northeast and Southeast as well as the eastern part of the Central United States.
In 2011 the 26 states east of the Mississippi (including Washington, D.C. but not the small portions of Minnesota and Louisiana east of the river) had an estimated population of 179,948,346 or 58.28% of the total U.S. population of 308,745,358 (excluding Puerto Rico).
Usage examples of "eastern united states".
Holding the Rochester defenses was, therefore, the number one priority in the eastern United States.
About seventy million years ago much of the western part of America lay beneath a considerable sea, and if this configuration had persisted, the eastern United States would have been an island much like Great Britain, but dominated by the low-lying Appalachians.
I hadn't told Katz, but we were about to traverse sixteen peaks above 6,000 feet, including Clingmans Dome, the highest point on the AT at 6,643 feet (just 41 feet less than nearby Mount Mitchell, the highest mountain in the eastern United States).
At that rate we'll lose every goddamn soldier in the eastern United States to this single landing!
He looked out of the F-16's canopy at the fading coastline of the eastern United States.
Each spring an immense lemming-like migration begins all over the Eastern United States.
A handful of glowing coals scattered across Mexico and the eastern United States: the land strikes of the Hammer.
It is the biggest Indian reservation in the Eastern United States and it was packed from one end to the other with souvenir stores selling tawdry Indian trinkets, all Of them with big signs on their roofs and sides saying, MOCCASINS!