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The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia of the United States of America in central North America. [ 1][ 2] The term excludes the only two non- contiguous states, which are Alaska and Hawaii (they are also the last two states to be admitted to ...
The US has the 2nd largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 11,351,000 km 2 (4,383,000 sq mi). By total area ( water as well as land), the United States is either slightly larger or smaller than the People's Republic of China, making it the world's third or fourth-largest country.
Lake Superior – Lying along the Canada–United States border, it is the second largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, at 31,700 sq mi (82,100 km 2), of which 20,600 square miles (53,350 km 2) is within the United States
The geographic center of the United States is a point approximately 20 mi (32 km) north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota at 44°58′2.07622″N 103°46′17.60283″W. It has been regarded as such by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the U.S. National Geodetic Survey (NGS) since the additions of Alaska and Hawaii to the United ...
A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from the map. The United States of America is a federal republic [ 1] consisting of 50 states ...
Joint Expeditionary Base–Little Creek – located 20 kilometers (13 miles) northwest of Virginia Beach. Joint Base Lewis-McChord – located 17 kilometers (11 miles) southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling – located 11 kilometers (7 miles) south of Washington, D.C. Joint Base Andrews – located 22 kilometers (14 miles ...
The lowering of the allowable "jump distance" from 2.5 to 1.5 miles. A jump is a distance along a road to connect two urban territories surrounded by rural territory. Largely as a result of the change in criteria, the proportion of American citizens living in urban areas fell between 2010 and 2020, from 80.7% to 80.0%. [1]
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - United States has an extensive online collection of scanned historical maps of the US, and a list of other map sites. Charting North America, maps and atlases in the New York Public Library Digital Collection. Online digitized versions of many 18th- and 19th-century American atlases, as well as the 1897 ...