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Geographical region of the United States
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This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the ISS. The pass begins over Canada and ends in the Caribbean Sea, covering the entire Central United States.The Central United States is sometimes conceived as between the Eastern and Western as part of a three-region model, roughly coincident with the U.S. Census Bureau's definition of the Midwestern United States plus the western and central portions of the U.S. Census's definition of the Southern United States. The Central States are typically considered to consist of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Mississippi and Alabama.[citation needed]
Chicago is the area's largest city and metropolitan area; other large cities with large metropolitan areas include New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri, Topeka, Wichita, Omaha, Nebraska and Lincoln, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Madison and Milwaukee, St. Louis, Louisville, Lexington, Detroit and Grand Rapids, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, Dayton, Rockford, Peoria, Indianapolis, Evansville, Fort Wayne and South Bend.[citation needed]
Four of nine Census Bureau Divisions have names containing "Central", though they are not grouped as a region. They include 20 states and 39.45% of the U.S. population as of July 1, 2007.[1]
Almost all of the area is in the Gulf of Mexico drainage basin and most of that is in the Mississippi basin. Small waterways near the Great Lakes drain into the Great Lakes, and eventually the St. Lawrence River. The Red River Valley is centered on the North Dakota-Minnesota border and drains to Hudson Bay. Floods have been a problem for the region during the 20th and early 21st century.[2]
The Central Time Zone includes portions of the Florida panhandle, upper portions of Michigan, parts of Indiana, western Kentucky, western Tennessee, all of Texas except El Paso, and extends to the westernmost fringes of Great Plains states.[citation needed]
Central United States in 1908 from The Harmsworth atlas and Gazetter
Map of
U.S. time zonesbetween April 2, 2006, and March 11, 2007. The current time zone now has
Pulaski County, Indianain the
Eastern Time Zoneand no longer in the
Central Time Zone.
Different organizations define the central regions of the United States in a variety of ways:
The geographic center of the 48 contiguous or conterminous United States, determined in a 1918 survey, is located at , about 2.6 miles (4.2 km) northwest of the center of Lebanon, Kansas, approximately 12 miles (19 km) south of the Kansas–Nebraska border.[3] The determination is accurate to about 20 miles (32 km).[4]
While any measurement of the exact center of a land mass will always be imprecise due to changing shorelines and other factors, the NGS coordinates are recognized in a historical marker in a small park at the intersection of AA Road and
K-191. It is accessible by a turn-off from
U.S. Route 281.
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