In 2020, the region was home to an estimated 26.1 million people, of whom roughly 80% are white. It stretches from the western Catskill Mountains in the east end of the Southern Tier of New York State west and south into Pennsylvania, continuing on through the Blue Ridge Mountains into northern Georgia, and through the Great Smoky Mountains from North Carolina into Tennessee and northern Alabama. ( Appalachian Regional Commission estimate)Īppalachia ( / ˌ æ p ə ˈ l æ tʃ ə, - l eɪ tʃ ə, - l eɪ ʃ ə/) is a cultural region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States.
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