The Eastern U.S. includes the seven states of the Mid-Atlantic U.S.: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the nation's capital of Washington, D.C.. The region includes New York City, the largest city in the U.S. and a global center of finance and culture, and Philadelphia, the nation's sixth largest city and where the Declaration of Independence was signed at Independence Hall in 1776, formally launching the American Revolutionary War, and later the location where the U.S. Constitution was drafted and ratified at Independence Hall in 1789.
