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The Southeastern United States, colloquially referred to as the South, is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.
There is no official Census Bureau definition of the southeastern United States. However, the Association of American Geographers defines the southeastern United States as Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.[1]
Florida (19,317,568)[2] Georgia (9,919,945),[3] North Carolina (9,752,073),[4] Virgina (8,185,867),[5] Tennessee (6,456,243),[6] South Carolina (4,723,723),[7] Kentucky (4,380,415).[8]
Jacksonville, Charlotte, and Memphis are the largest cities in the region by city-proper population; however, Miami, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, and Tampa are the most populous metropolitan areas in the region.
The predominant culture of the South has its origins with the settlement of the region by British colonists and African slaves in the 17th century, large groups of English, Scots and Ulster-Scots.
In the last two generations, the South has changed dramatically. In recent decades it has seen a boom in its service economy, manufacturing base, high technology industries, and the financial sector. Examples of this include the surge in tourism in Florida and along the Gulf Coast; numerous new automobile production plants such as Mercedes-Benz in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Hyundai in Montgomery, Alabama; Toyota Motors in Blue Springs, Mississippi; Kia in West Point, Georgia; the BMW production plant in Greer, South Carolina; Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee; the GM manufacturing plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee; and the Nissan North American headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee; the two largest research parks in the country: Research Triangle Park in the Triangle area of North Carolina (the world's largest) and the Cummings Research Park in Huntsville, Alabama (the world's fourth largest); and the corporate headquarters of major banking corporations Bank of America in Charlotte, North Carolina; Regions Financial Corporation, AmSouth Bancorporation, and BBVA Compass in Birmingham; SunTrust Banks and the district headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; and BB&T in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The region is home many Fortune 500 companies including 20 in Virginia, 16 in Florida, 15 in North Carolina, and 14 in Georgia. This economic expansion has enabled parts of the South to boast of some of the lowest unemployment rates in the United States.[9] The many automotive manufacturing plants in Alabama, primarily those owned by automakers Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, and Honda, in coordination with countless automotive supplier corporations, have made the state of Alabama the number one center for automotive manufacturing and production, having surpassed Detroit in recent years. Alabama is also home to a large-scale manufacturing project owned by the German steel megacorporation Thyssen-Krupp, which operates a massive, state-of-the-art facility in the Alabama port city of Mobile.
The Southeastern United States is home to a number of prominent universities, with several large research universities of longstanding significance (such as University of Mississippi, University of Georgia, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University, University of Maryland, Clemson University, Florida State University, University of Miami, University of Kentucky, University of Tennessee, University of Memphis, University of Arkansas, Louisiana State University, Auburn University, University of Alabama, University of Central Florida, University of Florida (significance due to Gatorade; and Shands Hospital, a leading teaching and research hospital) which exert some influence beyond the region.
Duke University, Emory University, the University of Florida, Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tulane, Vanderbilt University, the University of Maryland at College Park, and the University of Virginia are the only educational institutions in the Southeastern United States that are members of the Association of American Universities (AAU).[11] The AAU is an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education.
These are the largest cities in the Southeastern region of the United States by population, according to the United States Census Bureau:[12][discuss]
These are the metropolitan areas of the Southeastern region which exceed 1 million in population according to the United States Census Bureau's 2012 estimates:[13][14]
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Two others tie some areas on the margins of the Southeast to urban centers in other regions:
The climate is warm and humid. There are short winters and long hot summers. The area has good soil for growing plants and is known for its large plantations and cash crops.
There are about 2 million feral pigs in the Southeastern United States. Around 500 thousand of those are in Florida.[15]
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