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Regional definitions vary from source to source. The states shown in dark red are usually included, while all or portions of the striped states may or may not be considered part of the East Coast.
The "East Coast," "Eastern Seaboard," or "Atlantic Seaboard" are terms referencing the easternmost coastal states in the United States of America. They touch the Atlantic Ocean and stretch up to Canada. It includes all thirteen original colonies, as well as such selected places as Washington, DC, Florida, Maine and Vermont. People elsewhere in the United States sometimes refer to the East Coast colloquially as "back east".
"East Coast" is frequently associated with the Northeastern United States, particularly for cultural concepts such as an "Eastern college" or "East-coast liberal"; the Southeast coast is more associated culturally with the larger American South. "East Coast" may also refer even more narrowly to the highly urbanized strip along the coast from Boston, Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., the so-called "BosWash megalopolis", which is also known as the "Northeast Corridor."
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