Östra USA
Området som britterna 1783 erkände som amerikanskt (ljusbrun färg) räknas vanligtvis som östra USA. Texas brukar räknas som väst, trots att delstaten ligger öster om Klippiga bergen.
ISS passerar östra USA.
Östra USA (engelska: Eastern United States), alternativt den amerikanska östern (engelska: American East) eller bara östern (engelska: East), är ett begrepp som traditionellt syftat på de östliga delstaterna i USA. Man säger ofta att Mississippifloden utgör gränsen mellan väst och öst.[1]
Flera av de större flygbolagen och flygplatserna hör hemma här, liksom järnvägsbolaget Amtrak, och området representerar inte en enhetlig kultur, på grund av invandring från flera olika europeiska länder från 1800-talet och framåt. Området består av delstater belägna i New England samt delar av Södern och Mellanvästern.
Källor
- Den här artikeln är helt eller delvis baserad på material från engelskspråkiga Wikipedia, 16 maj 2013.
Fotnoter
- ^ Jody Halsted (31 juli 2014). ”On the road along the Mississippi River” (på engelska). Foxnews. Arkiverad från originalet den 3 februari 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160203010504/http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2014/07/31/on-road-along-mississippi-river/. Läst 8 november 2015.
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Aurora Borealis and eastern United States at Night.ogv
This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken October 18, 2011 from 07:09:06 to 07:27:42 GMT, on a pass from just south of Alaska to eastern Cuba. The camera used for this imagery was north-facing, so the Aurora Borealis stay visible throughout the video. Lights from southern Canada show up before passing into central North America. Through the clouds, the peninsula of Michigan can be seen, with Chicago brightly lit at the south end of Lake Michigan. A few lightning storms can be seen in the large cloud mass over the Central United States. Finally, many large cities can be seen on the East Coast of the United States, including Atlanta, Georgia. Near the end of the video, the eastern half of the Florida peninsula can be seen, as well as the lighter shallow waters of the Bahamas.
This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken October 18, 2011 from 07:09:06 to 07:27:42 GMT, on a pass from just south of Alaska to eastern Cuba. The camera used for this imagery was north-facing, so the Aurora Borealis stay visible throughout the video. Lights from southern Canada show up before passing into central North America. Through the clouds, the peninsula of Michigan can be seen, with Chicago brightly lit at the south end of Lake Michigan. A few lightning storms can be seen in the large cloud mass over the Central United States. Finally, many large cities can be seen on the East Coast of the United States, including Atlanta, Georgia. Near the end of the video, the eastern half of the Florida peninsula can be seen, as well as the lighter shallow waters of the Bahamas.
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A map of the historical territorial expansion of the United States of America. Not shown: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, minor outlying islands, former territories
A map of the historical territorial expansion of the United States of America. Not shown: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, minor outlying islands, former territories