The North-East is subdivided into 2 regions: New England and the Midatlantic Region.

a) NEW ENGLAND - comprises 6 states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Havana.
Massachusetts is the oldest and economically the most important of these states. BOSTON, Mass., the leading U.S. fisheries port, specialises in finance, machine tools, electrical equipment and shoes. PROVIDENCE, R.I., specialises in jewellery, metalware and plastics.

b) THE MIDATLANTIC REGION - made up of these states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania (U.S. business, coal, good farmland)
NEW YORK CITY is the greatest port and manufacturing centre, the leader in finance and banking (Wall Street), called 'Big Apple', it's made up of 5 boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Richmond. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. is the second largest city of this region. It's known as the first U.S. capital (before the city of Washington was built).
PITTSBURGH, Pa. is known for its steel industry.

2) THE MIDDLE WEST frequently called the Midwest, is usually defined to include 12 states of the North Central region: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota.
The region exhibits great diversity in climate, soil and resources. It possesses a vast extent of rich farmland, an excellent river and lake system, extensive forest lands and deposits of minerals, iron ore, limestone and coal. It's an extremely important region. The Midwest is divided into 4 principal regions: the Lower Lake Region, the Upper Lake Region, the Corn Belt, the Wheat Belt.

a) THE LOWER LAKE REGION lies north of the Corn Belt and comprises the states of Michigan, Ohio, parts of Indiana, Illinois. It's the industrial area of the Midwest. The Great Lakes are connected with the Hudson and the Mississippi - the Ohio system by means of a number of canals. CHICAGO is a great manufacturing centre. It's especially known as the greatest meat processing and meat packing centre with huge slaughter houses and the greatest transportation centre.
DETROIT is famous for its automobile industry (Ford).
CLEVELAND is known as financial centre.

b) THE UPPER LAKE REGION includes the northern half of the Great Lake area (the states of Wisconsin and Minnesota). These are ideal dairying areas.

c) THE CORN BELT covers the following states: the whole of Iowa, most of Indiana and Illinois, parts of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota. Corn is usually grown on about half of the land.

d) THE WHEAT BELT extends to the west and north-west of the Corn Belt, stretching from the north. Oklahoma in the south to Canada in the north.