Composition
The region comprises nine states: the New England states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont; and the Mid-Atlantic states of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The Census Bureau regions are "widely used...for data collection and analysis." Other definitions agree. The Uniform Crime Reports of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Energy Modeling System both use the Census definitions of the Northeast. Gale's almanac of associations and regional, state, and local organizations also takes the same nine states as comprising the Northeast.
The Northeastern United States is bounded to the north by Canada, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the American South, and to the west by the American Midwest. The Census-defined region occupies a total area of 181,324 sq mi (469,630 km2).
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