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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Famous quotes containing the word composition:
“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing ... I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Since body and soul are radically different from one another and belong to different worlds, the destruction of the body cannot mean the destruction of the soul, any more than a musical composition can be destroyed when the instrument is destroyed.”
—Oscar Cullman. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? The Witness of the New Testament, ch. 1, Epworth Press (1958)
“The proposed Constitution ... is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)