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.The US Southeast is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, but the Census Bureau doesn't provide a standard definition of a "Southeast" region of the United States, and organizations that need to subdivide the US are free to define a "Southeast" region to fit their needs. (External Link

) However, Georgia is almost always included, Texas is almost never included, and inclusion of other states varies. Atlanta is the central metropolis of the Southeast (External Link

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) , and the Southeast roughly corresponds to an area with Atlanta centrally located, with Hartsfield as the region's airline hub. Much of Virginia is associated with the Washington, Richmond or Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News metropolitan areas. A portion of the latter extends into North Carolina.
The region boasts a number of prominent universities, with several large research universities of longstanding significance (such as James Madison University, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, Georgetown University,UNC Chapel Hill, Florida International University, Florida State University, University of Florida, Furman University, University of Georgia, Emory University, Duke University, Wake Forest University, Medical College of Georgia, University of Miami, Medical University of South Carolina, North Carolina State University, Clemson University, University of South Carolina and Georgia Institute of Technology) exerting an influence beyond the region. Research Triangle Park, in the Raleigh-Durham urban area of North Carolina has emerged (over a nearly 50-year existence) as a major hub of technology, governmental and biotechnological research and development, as has the Virginia BioTechnology Research Park

in Richmond. The Cummings Research Park in the Huntsville, Alabama area is another of the largest research complexes in the nation, and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida is the largest laboratory in the world devoted to the study of magnetism.

Examples of definitions of the Southeast

Defining organization	L	L	N
Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor
Southeast Division (NHL)
Atlantic Coast Conference
Southeast Division (NBA)
I-85 Corridor
Southeast Conservative Baptist
Southeast Conference, UCC	part	part	part
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Southeastern Conference
BellSouth
VISTAS
Atlanta Journal Constitution (External Link)
Southeast Tourism Society
Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast
Southeast Equestrian Network
Bureau of Economic Analysis (External Link)

Largest metropolitan areas

Beyond Megalopolis

by Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute, an attempt to update Jean Gottmann's work with current trends, defines two "megapolitan areas" contained within the Southeast, out of a total of ten such areas in the United States:

"Piedmont" centered on Atlanta and extending from North Carolina to Alabama
"Peninsula" covering South Florida and Central Florida Two others tie some areas on the margins of the Southeast to urban centers in other regions:
"Gulf Coast" extending as far east as the western tip of Florida
"Northeast" including much of eastern Virginia

Rank	Metropolitan Area	Population	State(s)
1	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach	5,422,200	Florida
2	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria	5,290,400	Virginia / District of Columbia / Maryland / West Virginia
3	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta	5,249,121	Georgia
4	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater	2,589,637	Florida
5	Orlando-Kissimmee	1,997,437	Florida
6	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News	1,700,000	Virginia / North Carolina
7	Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord	1,521,278	North Carolina / South Carolina
8	Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro		Tennessee
9	Raleigh-Durham	1,467,434	North Carolina
10	Jacksonville	1,348,381	Florida
11	Richmond	1,300,000	Virginia
12	Memphis	1,260,905	Tennessee/Mississippi/Arkansas
13	Louisville-Jefferson County	1,245,920	Kentucky
14	Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson	1,203,795	South Carolina

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