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US and Canadian City, State, Province and Region Names and Nicknames

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• 49th Parallel (very brief mention)

• Acadia and The Cajuns

• Allegheny Mountains, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia (very brief mention)

• Aloha State: Hawaii

• America's Dairyland: Wisconsin

• American Samoa (very brief mention)

• Appalachia

• Atlantic Provinces (very brief mention)

• Badger State: Wisconsin

• Badlands, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota

• Baja California (very brief mention)

• Basin and Range Region, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah

• Bay Area, California

• Bay State: Massachusetts

• Beautiful British Columbia: British Columbia

• Beaver State: Oregon

• Beehive State: Utah

• Beringia

• Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts (very brief mention)

• Bible Belt

• Big Apple (very brief mention)

• Big Easy (very brief mention)

• Big Sky Country: Montana

• Black Belt

• Bluegrass State: Kentucky

• Bluenoser Province: Nova Scotia

• Buckeye State: Ohio

• Canada's Breadbasket: Saskatchewan

• Canada's Ocean Playground: Nova Scotia

• Canadian Rockies, Alberta and British Columbia

• Canadian Shield

• Carolina (very brief mention)

• Cascade Mountains, British Columbia, California, Oregon and Washington State

• Centennial State: Colorado

• Chihuahuan Desert, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas

• City of Brotherly Love (very brief mention)

• Coast Ranges

• Coconino Plateau, Arizona

• Colorado Desert, California

• Colorado Plateau, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah

• Colour Country, Utah (very brief mention)

• Colourful Colorado: Colorado

• Commonwealths

• Comstock Lode, Nevada (very brief mention)

• Confederate States (very brief mention)

• Constitution State: Connecticut

• Conterminous States (very brief mention)

• Contiguous States (very brief mention)

• Cornhusker State: Nebraska

• County

• Cowboy State: Wyoming

• Coyote State: South Dakota

• Dakota (very brief mention)

• Delmarva

• Deseret: Utah

• Desert Southwest

• Diamond State: Delaware

• Dixie

• Driftless Region, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin (very brief mention)

• Dust Bowl

• Dutch Country (Pennsylvania Dutch Country)

• Eastern Shore (very brief mention)

• Empire State: New York State

• Empire State of the South: Georgia

• Equality State: Wyoming

• Evergreen State: Washington State

• Fall Line

• Famous Potatoes: Idaho

• First in Flight: North Carolina

• First State: Delaware

• Forty-Ninth Parallel (very brief mention)

• Four Corners, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah

• Free State: Maryland

• Friendly Manitoba: Manitoba

• Garden State: New Jersey

• Gem State: Idaho

• Gila Desert, Arizona and California

• Golden State: California

• Grand Canyon State: Arizona

• Grand Circle, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah

• Grand Staircase, Arizona and Utah

• Granite State: New Hampshire

• Great Basin, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah

• Great Lake State/Great Lakes State: Michigan

• Great North Woods (very brief mention)

• Great Lakes

• Great Plains (very brief mention)

• Green Mountain State: Vermont

• Guam (very brief mention)

• Hawkeye State: Iowa

• Heart of Dixie: Alabama

• Heartland Province: Ontario

• Homestake Lode, South Dakota (very brief mention)

• Hoosier State: Indiana

• Hub of the Maritimes (very brief mention)

• Imperial Valley, California

• Inland Empire (very brief mention)

• Inside Passage (very brief mention)

• Intermountain States (very brief mention)

• Kaibab Plateau, Arizona and Utah

• Keystone Province: Manitoba

• Keystone State: Pennsylvania

• Labrador

• Land of Enchantment: New Mexico

• Land of Evangeline: Nova Scotia

• Land of Lincoln: Illinois

• Land of Living Skies: Saskatchewan

• Land of Opportunity: Arkansas

• Last Frontier: Alaska

• Laurentian Plateau

• Little Egypt, Illinois (very brief mention)

• Little Rhody: Rhode Island

• Llano Estacado, New Mexico and Texas (very brief mention)

• Local Government Administrative Areas

• Lone Star State: Texas

• Los Angeles, California (very brief mention)

• Louisiana and the Louisiana Purchase

• Lower California (very brief mention)

• Lower Forty-Eight States (very brief mention)

• Lower Peninsula, Michigan

• Loyalist Province: New Brunswick

• Magnolia State: Mississippi

• Maritime Provinces (very brief mention)

• Mid-Atlantic States (very brief mention)

• Midwest (very brief mention)

• Mile High City (very brief mention)

• Mojave Desert, California, Nevada and Utah

• Mormon State: Utah

• Mother Lode, California

• Motor City (very brief mention)

• Mount Rushmore State: South Dakota

• Mountain State: West Virginia

• Muskoka Region, Ontario

• Nation's Capital (USA): Washington DC

• Natural State: Arkansas

• New England

• New Mexico (very brief mention)

• New York (very brief mention)

• North Star State: Minnesota

• North Woods (very brief mention)

• Northwest Angle, Minnesota (very brief mention)

• Northwest Territories (very brief mention)

• Northwest Territory (very brief mention)

• Nunavut

• Ocean State: Rhode Island

• Old Dominion: Virginia

• Old Line State: Maryland

• Old North State: North Carolina

• Osage Plains, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas (very brief mention)

• Pacific Northwest Geographical Features

• Palouse Hills, Washington State

• Palmetto State: South Carolina

• Panhandle

• Parish

• Peace Garden State: North Dakota

• Peach State: Georgia

• Pelican State: Louisiana

• Pennsylvania Dutch Country

• Piedmont (very brief mention)

• Pine Tree State: Maine

• Plains States (very brief mention)

• Prairie Provinces (very brief mention)

• Prairie State: Illinois

• Precambrian Shield

• Puerto Rico (very brief mention)

• Quad-Cities (very brief mention)

• Québec (very brief mention)

• Regions of the USA

• Rock, The: The island of Newfoundland

• Rocky Mountains

• San Andreas Fault, California (very brief mention)

• San Francisco, California (very brief mention)

• Show-me State: Missouri

• Sierra Nevada Mountains, California and Nevada

• Silver State: Nevada

• Sonoran Desert, Arizona and California

• Sooner State: Oklahoma

• South, The (very brief mention)

• Sportsman's Paradise: Louisiana

• Storied Province: Province of Québec

• Sunflower State: Kansas

• Sunny Alberta: Alberta

• Sunshine State: Florida

• Sunshine State: South Dakota

• Superior Upland, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin (very brief mention)

• Tar Heel State: North Carolina

• Treasure State: Montana

• Tri-Cities (very brief mention)

• Tri-State Regions (very brief mention)

• Triple Cities (very brief mention)

• Twin Cities (very brief mention)

• Twin Ports (very brief mention)

• Ungava (very brief mention)

• Upper Peninsula, Michigan

• US Virgin Islands (very brief mention)

• Virginia (very brief mention)

• Volunteer State: Tennessee

• Washington (very brief mention)

• West, The (very brief mention)

• West Virginia (very brief mention)

• Wild Rose Country: Alberta

• Windy City (very brief mention)

• Wolverine State: Michigan

• Yellowhammer State: Alabama

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