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The Allegheny Mountain Range —also spelled Alleghany, Allegany and, informally, the Alleghenies—is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the eastern United States and Canada where it posed a significant barrier to land travel in less technologically advanced eras.

It is a barrier range that has a northeast–southwest orientation and runs for about 400 miles (640 km) from north-central Pennsylvania, through western Maryland and eastern West Virginia, to southwestern Virginia.

The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia, lying inland from the Atlantic Ocean and surrounded to the west by the North American mainland and to the east by the Delmarva Peninsula.

It is the largest estuary in North America.

With its northern portion in Maryland and the southern part in Virginia, the Chesapeake Bay is a very important feature for the ecology and economy of those two states, as well as others.

More than 150 major rivers and streams flow into the bay's drainage basin, which covers parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia) and all of Washington, D.C.

The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, generally known as the Appalachian Trail or simply the A.T., is a marked hiking trail in the Eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine.

The trail is about 2,200 miles (3,500 km) long, though the exact length changes over time as parts are modified or rerouted.

More than 2 million people are said to do at least one day-hike on the trail each year.

"Virginia is for Lovers" is the tourism and travel slogan of the U.S. state of Virginia.

Used since 1969, it has become a well-recognized and often imitated part of American jargon.

In 2012, Advertising Age called "Virginia is for Lovers" "one of the most iconic ad campaigns in the past 50 years.".

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth's surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area.

It separates the "Old World" from the "New World".