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Southeastern United States

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The US Southeast is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, but the Census Bureau does not provide a standard definition of a "Southeast" region of the United States, and organizations that need to subdivide the US are free to define a "Southeast" region to fit their needs. However, Georgia is almost always included, Texas is almost never included, and inclusion of other states varies.

Atlanta is the central metropolis of the Southeast , and the Southeast roughly corresponds to an area with Atlanta centrally located, with Hartsfield as the region's airline hub. Much of Virginia is associated with the Washington, Richmond or Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News metropolitan areas. A portion of the latter extends into North Carolina.

The region boasts a number of prominent universities, with several large research universities of longstanding significance (such as University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Tech, UNC Chapel Hill, Florida International University, Florida State University, University of Florida, Furman University, University of Georgia, Emory University, Duke University, Wake Forest University, Medical College of Georgia, University of Miami, Medical University of South Carolina, North Carolina State University, Clemson University, University of South Carolina and Georgia Institute of Technology) exerting an influence beyond the region. Research Triangle Park, in the Raleigh-Durham urban area of North Carolina has emerged (over a nearly 50-year existence) as a major hub of technology, governmental and biotechnological research and development, as has the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park in Richmond. The Cummings Research Park in the Huntsville, Alabama area is another of the largest research complexes in the nation, and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida is the largest laboratory in the world devoted to the study of magnetism.

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A Look At Atlanta p. 6 x x x x x x x
Atlantic Coast Conference x x x x x
Southeastern Conference x x x x x x x x x
Comcast Sports Southeast/Charter Sports Southeast x x x x x x x x x x x x
Southeast Conference, United Church of Christ part part x x part x
Southeast Conservative Baptist x x x x
Southeast Tourism Society x x x x x x x x x x x x
Southeast Division (NBA) x x x x
Southeast Division (NHL) x x x x x
Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor x x x x x x
I-85 Corridor x x x x x
BellSouth x x x x x x x x x
Visibility Improvement State and Tribal Association of the Southeast x x x x x x x x x x
Atlanta Journal Constitution x x x x x x x x x x x
Southeast Equestrian Network x x x x x x x x x x x x

Largest metropolitan areas

Beyond Megalopolis by Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute, an attempt to update Jean Gottmann's work with current trends, defines two "megapolitan areas" contained within the Southeast, out of a total of ten such areas in the United States:

Two others tie some areas on the margins of the Southeast to urban centers in other regions:

  • "Gulf Coast" extending as far east as the western tip of Florida
  • "Northeast" including much of eastern Virginia

Rank Metropolitan Area Population State(s)
1 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 5,422,200 Florida
2 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria 5,290,400 Virginia / District of Columbia / Maryland / West Virginia
3 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta 5,249,121 Georgia
4 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater 2,589,637 Florida
5 Orlando-Kissimmee 1,997,437 Florida
6 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News 1,700,000 Virginia / North Carolina
7 Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord 1,521,278 North Carolina / South Carolina
8 Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro

 1,498,836 Tennessee
9 Raleigh-Durham 1,467,434 North Carolina
10 Jacksonville 1,348,381 Florida
11 Richmond 1,300,000 Virginia
12 Memphis 1,260,905 Tennessee/Mississippi/Arkansas
13 Louisville-Jefferson County 1,245,920 Kentucky
14 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson 1,203,795 South Carolina

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