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Image:Blank US Map with borders.svg, a blank states maps with borders. Image:BlankMap-USA.png, a map with no borders and states separated by transparency. Image:US map - geographic.png, a geographical map. On Wikimedia Commons, a free online media resource: commons:Category:Maps of the United States, the category for all maps with subcategories.
A topographic map of the United States. 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).
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]
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]
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]
Date: 30 July 2011: Source: Own work. Based on Reference Map of Hawaii (pagegen_hi3.pdf), INTERIOR-GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, RESTON, VIRGINIA-2004 (PDF) provided by United States Geological Survey; United States Department of the Interior on its website National Atlas of the United States, March 5, 2003
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Date: 30 July 2011: Source: Own work. Based on Reference Map of Hawaii (pagegen_hi3.pdf), INTERIOR-GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, RESTON, VIRGINIA-2004 (PDF) provided by United States Geological Survey; United States Department of the Interior on its website National Atlas of the United States, March 5, 2003