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The United States is divided into many different regions and subregions - and not everyone agrees on where each state falls.
- The United States is made up of many different regions and subregions.
- Government agencies have different ways of grouping the states based on geography, culture, or other factors.
- We compiled several maps that show the different ways US states are grouped into regions.
The United States is an enormous country comprising several different regions and subregions.
There are countless ways to divide the US on cultural, geographical, and even racial lines. There are so many ways, in fact, that different government agencies all seem to have different ways of doing it.
The US Census Bureau, for example, considers there to be four regions of the US: the Northeast, the Midwest, the South, and the West. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Economic Analysis uses a map that splits the country up into eight regions, from New England to the Rocky Mountains to the Great Lakes.
Read on to see all the different ways US states are grouped, and see where your state falls: