Yes, NY and NJ are in New England. MI is Michigan, LA is Louisiana. Sorry if I assumed state abbreviations were known. I forget that I am speaking to an international crowd at times.
I lied! NY and NJ are not in New England. The USA is annoying.
I lied! NY and NJ are not in New England. The USA is annoying.
New York and New Jersey are mid Atlantic states.
Maybe they should be more careful with their choice of name, New England has been used for over 400 years to refer to something that definitely doesn’t include Manhattan or New Jersey.
The name even has a precise administrative meaning today, as does Middle Atlantic: https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us...
In other contexts New England is usually used correctly, though I have seen people include NY and/or the original 13 colonies as "New England"
That said I didn't know about the mid-atlantic administrative region, thanks for that info. It seems really weird to call NY, which borders Canada, mid-atlantic and have it stop at the south of NJ, especially when east north central goes further south. South atlantic looks about 2-3x bigger than mid and definitely goes way past the north-south halfway point of the east coast.