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The following list contains the 420 counties and eight independent cities that comprise the region of Appalachia as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission. The ARC was established by the United States federal government in 1965 to alleviate poverty in the Appalachian region, and currently monitors areas in 13 states.
The blue dotted line encloses the counties included in the ARC definition. The first major attempt to map Appalachia as a distinctive cultural region came in the 1890s with the efforts of Berea College president William Goodell Frost, whose "Appalachian America" included 194 counties in 8 states.
Appalachian Ohio is a bioregion and political unit in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio, characterized by the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and the Appalachian Plateau. The Appalachian Regional Commission defines the region as consisting of thirty-two counties. [ 1 ]
The Appalachian Mountains, [ b ] often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America. The term "Appalachian" refers to several different regions associated with the mountain range, and its surrounding terrain. The general definition used is one followed by the United States Geological Survey and the ...
Fayette County, Alabama (7 C, 8 P) Fayette County, Pennsylvania (8 C, 15 P) Fentress County, Tennessee (6 C, 5 P) Fleming County, Kentucky (5 C, 5 P) Floyd County, Georgia (6 C, 5 P) Floyd County, Kentucky (6 C, 7 P) Floyd County, Virginia (8 C, 6 P) Forest County, Pennsylvania (7 C, 5 P)
East Tennessee's major landforms. East Tennessee is located within three major geological divisions of the Appalachian Mountains: the Blue Ridge Mountains on the border with North Carolina in the east; the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians (usually called the "Great Appalachian Valley" or "Tennessee Valley" [a]) in the center; and the Cumberland Plateau in the west, part of which is in Middle ...
ARC serves 423 counties and 8 independent cities that encompass roughly 205,000 square miles (530,000 km 2), with a population of more than 25 million people. The Appalachian Regional Commission has 14 members: the governors of the 13 Appalachian states and a federal co-chair, who is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. A ...
The counties most commonly associated with Western North Carolina. Many definitions will vary. Western North Carolina (often abbreviated as WNC) is the region of North Carolina which includes the Appalachian Mountains; it is often known geographically as the state's Mountain Region.