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The Upper
Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee is an extension
of the Allegheny Plateau, known by a local name. In the
southern United States, where usage of Cumberland Plateau is
the common term, usage of the term includes much of eastern
Kentucky and western West Virginia in the United States, and
also stretches in a band across Tennessee to include a small
portion of northern Alabama.
Though the plateau is not composed of true mountains
(although that is the local name for them), and nowhere is
very high, it has some of the most rugged terrain in the
eastern United States. Inhabitants of eastern Kentucky and
western West Virginia mostly live in very narrow V-shaped
valleys with little bottom land.*
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