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The international border states are those states in the U.S. that border either the Bahamas, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, or Russia. With a total of eighteen of such states, thirteen (including Alaska) lie on the U.S.–Canada border , four lie on the U.S.–Mexico border , and one has maritime borders with Cuba and The Bahamas .
Historical military map of the border and southern states by Phelps & Watson, 1866. In the American Civil War (1861–65), the border states or the Border South were four, later five, slave states in the Upper South that primarily supported the Union. They were Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, and after 1863, the new state of West ...
Canada–United States border - Partially disputed in the Atlantic Ocean (Maine-New Brunswick) and Pacific Ocean (Washington State-British Columbia). Passamaquoddy Bay border defined by 1910 treaty. Gulf of Maine partial border defined by 1984 ruling of the International Court of Justice. [1]
Border irregularities of the United States (2 C, 34 P) I. Internal territorial disputes of the United States (1 C, 53 P) M. Mason–Dixon line (10 P)
Alaska and Hawaii do not share borders with any other U.S. state. Alaska shares its land border with Canada and sea border with the Russian Federation . This is a container category .
These twelve Federal Reserve Banks together form a major part of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. Missouri is the only U.S. state to have two Federal Reserve locations within its borders, but several other states are also divided between more than one district. Boston; New York; Philadelphia ...
Because the river is the southern border of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, it was part of the border between free states and slave states in the years before the American Civil War. One antebellum slave trader reported that they kept slaves chained two-by-two while navigating the Ohio, only when they reached the Mississippi could the slaves be ...
Border states may refer to: Limitrophe states , states bordering a given country, e.g. Russia Border states (American Civil War) , the five slave states that remained in the Union during the American Civil War (Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and from 1863, West Virginia)