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This is a complete list of all 50 U.S. states, its federal district (Washington, D.C.) and its major territories ordered by total area, land area and water area. [1] The water area includes inland waters, coastal waters, the Great Lakes and territorial waters.
The United States is the world's third-largest country by total area behind Russia and Canada. [d] [180] [181] The 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia occupy a combined area of 3,119,885 square miles (8,080,470 km 2).
July 8 – Grace Coolidge, First Lady of the United States, Second Lady of the United States (born 1879) July 10 – Julia Boynton Green, poet (born 1861) July 15 – George Cleveland, Canadian-American actor (born 1885) July 24 – Frank Fenton, actor (born 1906) August 7 – Oliver Hardy, comic film actor (born 1892)
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2). In many cases an incorporated place is geographically large because its municipal government has merged with the government of the surrounding county.
1957 in the United States by state or territory (51 C) * 1957 events in the United States by month (12 C) / 1957 disestablishments in the United States (39 C, 7 P)
1957 elections in the United States by state (13 C) 1957 in American sports by state (48 C) A. 1957 in Alabama (3 C, 1 P) 1957 in Arizona (3 C, 1 P) 1957 in Arkansas ...
The term "United States," when used in the geographic sense, refers to the contiguous United States (sometimes referred to as the Lower 48, including the District of Columbia not as a state), Alaska, Hawaii, the five insular territories of Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and minor outlying possessions. [1]