#Appalachia  an impoverished coal mining area in the Appalachian Mountains (from Pennsylvania to North Carolina)
  supertype:  #geographical_area__geographic_area__geographical_region__geographic_region  a demarcated area of the Earth
  part of:  #Appalachians__Appalachian_Mountains  a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States
     part of:  #East_USA  the region of the United States lying north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
        part of:  #USA__United_States_of_America__United_States__America__US__U.S.__U.S.A.  North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
           part of:  #North_America  a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
              part of:  #northern_hemisphere  the hemisphere north of the equator
              part of:  #western_hemisphere__westernhemisphere__occident__New_World  the hemisphere that includes North and South America
              part of:  #the_Americas__America  North and South America

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