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  2. List of U.S. states and territories by area - Wikipedia

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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. Glaciers and intermittent bodies of water are counted as land area. [2]

  3. West Coast of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The West Coast of the United States, also known as the Pacific Coast and the Western Seaboard, is the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean. The term typically refers to the contiguous U.S. states of California , Oregon , and Washington , but it occasionally includes Alaska and Hawaii in bureaucratic usage.

  4. Geography of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The West Coast of the continental United States makes up part of the Pacific Ring of Fire, an area of heavy tectonic and volcanic activity that is the source of 90% of the world's earthquakes. [ 28 ] The American Northwest sees the highest concentration of active volcanoes in the United States, in Washington , Oregon and northern California ...

  5. List of U.S. states and territories by coastline - Wikipedia

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    Coast/area ratio (ft/mi 2) Coastline Rank Coastline Rank Method 1 Method 2 ... American Samoa – – 126 mi (203 km) [8] 32 ...

  6. Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Columbia is a large river, 1,243 miles (2,000 km) long, in central western North America and is the most powerful river on the West Coast of the Americas. In the far northwest of North America, the Yukon drains much of the Alaskan peninsula and flows 1,980 miles (3,190 km) [ 71 ] from parts of Yukon and the Northwest Territory to the Pacific.

  7. List of countries by length of coastline - Wikipedia

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    In addition to coastline lengths, this is the source of the land area used to calculate the "coast/area ratio" for both TWF and WRI (see below) coastline measurement. This ratio measures how many metres of coastline correspond to every square kilometer of land area. The ratio illustrates the ease of accessibility to the country's coast from ...

  8. These People Own the Most Land in America - AOL

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    Land area: 261,937 acres Roughly equal to: San Antonio, Texas Rancher and oilman D.K. Boyd owns over a quarter million acres of American land, including ranches in the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico.

  9. Geography of California - Wikipedia

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    California is a U.S. state on the western coast of North America. Covering an area ... Coast, eastward over 100 miles (160 km ... the land appears to the west.