id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-744 Appalachian Mountains - Wikipedia .html text/html 7763 717 65 The United States Geological Survey (USGS) defines the Appalachian Highlands physiographic division as consisting of thirteen provinces: the Atlantic Coast Uplands, Eastern Newfoundland Atlantic, Maritime Acadian Highlands, Maritime Plain, Notre Dame and Mégantic Mountains, Western Newfoundland Mountains, Piedmont, Blue Ridge, Valley and Ridge, Saint Lawrence Valley, Appalachian Plateaus, and New England province.[6][7] One should be careful to note that the Appalachians do not include the Adirondack Mountains. The term is often used more restrictively to refer to regions in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains, usually including areas in the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and North Carolina, as well as sometimes extending as far south as northern Alabama, Georgia and western South Carolina, and as far north as Pennsylvania, southern and east central Ohio, Lower New York and the Southern Tier region of New York. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-744.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-744.txt