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Aerial view of Arkansas, part of "flyover country", as seen by an airliner passenger.

Flyover country and flyover states are Americanisms describing the region of the United States west of the Delaware River–Delmarva Peninsula and east of California's Central Valley. The terms are often used in a pejorative sense.

They are references to the regions of the country passed over during inter-coastal flights —e.g., flights between the nation's two largest cities, New York City and Los Angeles. Flyover country thus refers to the part of the country that some Americans only view by air and never actually see in person at ground level.

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• Middle America