Eastern North America

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Eastern North America is a broad geographic and cultural region of the continent encompassing the lands east of the Great Plains, including the Great Lakes, Appalachian Mountains, and Atlantic coastal areas.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
American North 1

Statements (97)

Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural region
geographic region
borderedBy Atlantic Ocean
Great Plains NERFINISHED
climate humid continental climate (large areas)
humid subtropical climate (southern areas)
subarctic climate (far northern areas)
colonizedBy France NERFINISHED
Great Britain NERFINISHED
Spain (southern fringes) NERFINISHED
containsCity Atlanta NERFINISHED
Boston NERFINISHED
Chicago NERFINISHED
Detroit NERFINISHED
Halifax NERFINISHED
Miami NERFINISHED
Montreal NERFINISHED
New York City NERFINISHED
Philadelphia NERFINISHED
Pittsburgh NERFINISHED
Quebec City NERFINISHED
Toronto NERFINISHED
Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED
containsCountry Canada (eastern portion)
Mexico (northeastern portion, sometimes included)
United States (eastern portion) NERFINISHED
containsTerritory Bermuda (sometimes included culturally)
continent North America
drainageBasin Arctic Ocean basin (northeastern Canada) NERFINISHED
Atlantic Ocean basin NERFINISHED
Gulf of Mexico basin NERFINISHED
economicRegionFor agriculture
fisheries
forestry
manufacturing
services sector
hasCoastlineOn Atlantic Ocean
Gulf of Mexico NERFINISHED
hasMountainRange Adirondack Mountains NERFINISHED
Appalachian Mountains NERFINISHED
Blue Ridge Mountains NERFINISHED
Great Smoky Mountains NERFINISHED
White Mountains NERFINISHED
historicallyInhabitedBy Algonquian-speaking peoples
Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands NERFINISHED
Iroquoian-speaking peoples
Muskogean-speaking peoples NERFINISHED
includes Acadian forest region NERFINISHED
Appalachian Mountains NERFINISHED
Appalachian Plateau NERFINISHED
Appalachian coalfields NERFINISHED
Atlantic coastal plain NERFINISHED
Boreal forest (eastern portion)
Canadian Maritimes NERFINISHED
Eastern deciduous forest NERFINISHED
Florida Peninsula NERFINISHED
Great Lakes region NERFINISHED
Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Lowlands NERFINISHED
Gulf Coast NERFINISHED
Hudson River valley NERFINISHED
Interior Lowlands NERFINISHED
Mid-Atlantic states NERFINISHED
Mississippi River valley (eastern portion) NERFINISHED
New England NERFINISHED
Ohio River valley NERFINISHED
Piedmont region NERFINISHED
Southeastern United States NERFINISHED
Southern Ontario NERFINISHED
Southern Quebec NERFINISHED
St. Lawrence River valley NERFINISHED
Tennessee River valley NERFINISHED
parts of the Canadian Shield
locatedIn Northern Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere NERFINISHED
majorBiome boreal forest
temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
temperate grasslands (transition zones)
majorLake Lake Champlain NERFINISHED
Lake Erie NERFINISHED
Lake Huron NERFINISHED
Lake Michigan NERFINISHED
Lake Ontario NERFINISHED
Lake Superior NERFINISHED
majorRiver Cumberland River NERFINISHED
Delaware River NERFINISHED
Hudson River NERFINISHED
James River NERFINISHED
Mississippi River NERFINISHED
Mobile River NERFINISHED
Ohio River NERFINISHED
Potomac River NERFINISHED
Savannah River NERFINISHED
St. Lawrence River NERFINISHED
Susquehanna River NERFINISHED
Tennessee River NERFINISHED
tectonicPlate North American Plate NERFINISHED
timeZoneRange UTC−3.5 to UTC−6 (approximate)

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Shinnecock language belongsToMacroRegion Eastern North America
Middle Mississippian culturalRegion Eastern North America
NHL Atlantic Division locationRegion Eastern North America
Northern Unami macroArea Eastern North America
ECHL Eastern Conference region Eastern North America
Prince of Wales Conference region Eastern North America
The Ice Palace setting Eastern North America
this entity surface form: American North
Late Archaic period spatialLocation Eastern North America