Historic regions of the United States

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These are historic regions of the United States, meaning regions that were legal entities in the past, or which the average modern American would no longer immediately recognize as a regional description.

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The Thirteen Colonies
The 13 colonies ceded their western claims to the federal government, allowing the creation of the first western territories (and later, states)
The 13 colonies ceded their western claims to the federal government, allowing the creation of the first western territories (and later, states)
Main article: Thirteen Colonies


Colonial districts other than the original thirteen
Main article: European colonization of the Americas


Colonies proposed but unrealized or unrecognized

See also: United States territorial acquisitions, Manifest Destiny

Census Bureau map (circa 1974?) depicting territorial acquisitions and dates of statehood or of ratification of the Constitution.
Census Bureau map (circa 1974?) depicting territorial acquisitions and dates of statehood or of ratification of the Constitution.


National Atlas map depicting United States territorial acquisitions.
National Atlas map depicting United States territorial acquisitions.

The following are land grants, cessions, purchases, defined districts (official or otherwise) or named settlements made within an area that was already part of the original 13 colonies or a state of the Union or U.S. territory, including major land acquisitions (of varying degrees of legality) from Native Americans that did not involve international treaties or state cessions.

Map of the Ohio Lands
Map of the Ohio Lands

Main article: Ohio Lands

Map of Oklahoma and Indian Territories
Map of Oklahoma and Indian Territories

See also: Organized incorporated territories of the United States

The following is a list of organized U.S. territories that have become states, in the order of the date organized.

See also: Historic regions of the United States#Oklahoma

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