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A map showing the contiguous United States and (in insets at the lower left) the two states that are not contiguous Map highlighting Alaska and Hawaii's geographical relationship to the contiguous United States. Alaska in red is in the upper part of the map, while Hawaii is the islands also in red to the far left.
English: Map of Alaska's area compared to the 48 conterminous United States. Français : Carte de la surface de l' Alaska comparée à celle des 48 États limitrophes. Scale: 1:5,000,000
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]
Forty-eight of the states are in the single region between Canada and Mexico. This group is referred to, with varying precision and formality, as the contiguous United States, and as the "Lower 48". Alaska, which is included in the term "continental United States", is located at the northwestern end of North America.
Denali, Alaska – highest summit in the United States, all US territories, and North America at 20,310 feet (6,190.5 m) (federally designated as Mount McKinley from 1917 to 2015 and again from Mount Whitney , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ note 1 ] California 36°34′43″N 118°17′31″W / 36.57861°N 118.29194°W / 36.57861; -118.29194 ...
This map compares the area of Alaska (shown in red) to that of the 48 contiguous United States. Date: 29 September 2007: Source: Based on Image:BlankMap-USA-states-Canada-provinces,_HI_closer.svg by Lokal_Profil: Author: 121a0012: Permission (Reusing this file)
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area at 570,380 square miles (1,477,300 km 2), over twice (roughly 2.47 times) as large as Texas, the next largest state, and is the seventh largest country subdivision in the world, and the third largest in North America, about 20.4% smaller than Denmark's autonomous country of ...
Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U.S. states combined. [43] Alaska's size compared with the 48 contiguous states (Albers equal-area conic projection) At 663,268 square miles (1,717,856 km 2) in total area, Alaska is by far the largest state in the United States. Alaska is more than twice the size of the second-largest U.S. state ...