>>189147Yes, they're mostly all city/cities. The ones that aren't:
Columbia Plateau (River plateau and valley)
Bay Area (San Francisco Bay Area)
Salt Lake (Lake near Salt Lake City)
Great Plains (big plains area there)
Rio Grande (River at border)
Corn Belt (Region where corn is heavily grown)
New Orleans-Delta (The Delta refers to the river delta that flows into the Gulf)
Twin Cities (Shared name of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area)
Blue Ridge (While it is also a city, this name is more for the mountain region since the population center is comparatively small to be the namesake)
Richmond-Tidewater (Tidewater is a reference to the coastal plain of the region)
Hudson Valley, Connecticut Valley (Valleys)
Boring directional ones:
NorCal (North California)
West Texas (West side of Texas)
Deep South (The deep part of the South of the US)
Upper Peninsula (The upper Peninsula that is currently part of Michigan in name mostly)
Central FL (The Central area of Florida)
Upstate NY (The upstate region of what was formerly New York state)
