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The division includes eight states - Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia - and also the District of Columbia. Together with the East South Central States ( Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and TennesseeTennessee ( In Detail) (Full size) State nickname: Volunteer State Other U. States Capital Nashville Largest City Memphis Governor Phil Bredesen Area Total Land Water % water Ranked 36th 109,247 kmē 106,846 kmē 2,400 kmē 2. 2% Population Total ( 2000) Den) and the West South Central StatesThe West South Central States form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States that are officially recognized by that country's census bureau. Four states comprise the division: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. The division is o ( ArkansasArkansas [akns] is a southern state in the southern United States. The 2000 census was 2,673,400. postal abbreviation is AR. It was admitted in 1836. USS Arkansas was named in honor of this state. History The early French explorers of the state gave it it, LouisianaLouisiana is a southern state of the United States of America. It uses the U. postal abbreviation LA . The state is bordered to the west by the state of Texas, to the north by Arkansas, to the east by the state of Mississippi, and to the south by the Gulf, OklahomaOklahoma ( In Detail) (Full size) State nickname: Sooner State Other U. States Capital Oklahoma City Largest City Oklahoma City Governor Brad Henry Area Total Land Water % water Ranked 20th 181,196 kmē 178,023 kmē 3,173 kmē 1. 8% Population Total ( 2000) and TexasTexas joined the United States of America as its 28th member state in 1845. It has the postal abbreviation TX . The state name derives from a word in a Caddoan language of the Hasinai, tejas meaning friends or allies Spanish explorers mistakenly applied t), the South Atlantic States constitute the United States Census BureauThe United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission is defined in the Constitution of the United States, which directs that the population be enumerated at least once every te's broader regionA region can also be any area, typically but not necessarily smaller than a country. Regierungsbezirk (regions of Germany) Regions of England Regions of the Philippines Regions of England Regions of Finland Communities, regions and provinces of Belgium Li of the South (the other three regions being the Northeast, Midwest and West, all of which have two divisions therein).
Most of the area covered by the South Atlantic States comprises the New South, one of the nine moral regions into which the United States is divided in the 1991 bestselling non-fiction book The Day America Told The Truth, with the rest of the South being placed in a different moral region, that of Old Dixie. Some parts of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, along with the District of Columbia, are reckoned as belonging to Metropolis, with still another portion of West Virginia being classified in the Rust Belt.