File:Counties Included In Appalachia Map.svg
Cities (labeled with dots) are only for reference and are not meant to represent all major cities
Source: from the Mapping Appalachia (https://mapappalachia.geography.vt.edu/about-2/) interactive map viewer:
https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=67230740ae2641e9828e48f531cce9a6&extent=-103.5955,26.1117,-60.1995,46.6462
The ten cultural definitions were used:
1896 Berea by William G. Frost and C. Willard Hayes,
1918 Berea Catalog,
1935 USDA Small Region,
1935 USDA Full Region,
1962 Ford Region,
1994 Salstrom,
2002 Core Appalachia from Williams,
1996 Consensus Appalachia from Williams,
1996 Loose Appalachia from Williams