What is Mid-Atlantic States?
{{complex|date=March 2024}} [[File:Mid-Atlantic States Map.jpg| thumb|upright=1.35|Map showing the location of the Mid-Atlantic States (red). Regional definitions vary slightly among sources. The Mid-Atlantic States either consist only of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, or consists only of Delaware and Maryland, or consist of all these states.]] The '''Mid-Atlantic States''' (also called ''Middle Atlantic States'') is a [[region]] in the [[Northeastern United States]] and form one of the nine geographic divisions within the [[United States]] that are officially recognized by the [[United States Census Bureau]]. The states include [[New Jersey]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[Pennsylvania]], Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia. The traditional Mid-Atlantic States comprise the most densely-populated of the nine U.S. regions, and serve as the center of the [[BosWash|megalopolis]] which runs from [[Boston]] to [[Washington, D.C.]]. The southeastern part of New York State, eastern Pennsylvania, and all of New Jersey combine to form the bulk of the ''moral region'' of the [[Metropolis]], according to socio-political geographers [[James Patterson]] and [[Peter Kim]], co-authors of the [[1991]] book ''[[The Day America Told The Truth]]''. (Their Metropolis begins in the southern [[Connecticut]] suburbs of [[New York City]] and stretches along the [[Eastern seaboard]] to the northern Virginia suburbs of [[Washington, D.C.]]). The book classifies the remainder of New York State and Pennsylvania in the [[Rust Belt]]. == {{US-geo-stub}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Census Regions of the United States]]