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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...
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    from the contiguous geographic center, which has not changed since the 1912 admissions of New Mexico and Arizona to the 48 contiguous United States, and falls...
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  • United States. Its population was 54 as of the 2020 census. The community is part of the Northwest Angle, the only place in the contiguous United States...
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    The term "United States," when used in the geographical sense, refers to the contiguous United States (sometimes referred to as the Lower 48, including...
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    This is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States. There are also federally recognized Alaska Native tribes. As of January 8...
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    United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States)...
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    point of the contiguous United States is Border Field State Park, California. The northwesternmost point of the contiguous United States is Cape Flattery...
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  • of Alaska is 18% of the area of the United States and equivalent to 21% of the area of the contiguous United States. The second largest state, Texas, has...
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    The United States has 63 national parks, which are congressionally designated protected areas operated by the National Park Service, an agency of the...
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    The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive...
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    The states and territories included in the United States Census Bureau's statistics for the United States population, ethnicity, and most other categories...
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  • Base in Lompoc, California Installations and locations in the contiguous United States. For Alaska and Hawaii see Pacific, East Asia and South East Asia...
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    United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest office in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States,...
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    polar climate in the north. The primary drivers of weather in the contiguous United States are the seasonal change in the solar angle, the migration north–south...
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    self-identify with indigenous heritage. Of groups Indigenous to the contiguous United States, the largest self-reported tribes are Cherokee (1,449,888), Navajo...
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    The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the United States...
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    Midwestern United States (also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest) is one of the four census regions defined by the United States Census Bureau...
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    the United States, often simply referred to as the Founding Fathers, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen...
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    The physiographic regions of the contiguous United States comprise 8 divisions, 25 provinces, and 85 sections. The system dates to Nevin Fenneman's report...
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    Hurricane Michael (category October 2018 events in the United States)
    the contiguous United States since Andrew in 1992. It was the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States in...
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    the four time zones of the contiguous United States are: Eastern Time Zone (Zone R), which comprises roughly the states on the Atlantic coast and the...
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    The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
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    The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States...
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  • America Severe reduction of Native American populations in the contiguous United States, largely due to new infectious diseases carried by European colonists...
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    federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located...
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  • Party—which together have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and controlled the United States Congress since at least 1856.[page needed]...
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    shoreline bordering Mexico is cooler in summer than most areas in the contiguous United States. Just a few miles inland, summer temperature extremes are significantly...
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  • 121 km) of the Mexico–United States border along major U.S. highways; near the southern border of the contiguous United States. Their situation at interior...
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    The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress. The United States Senate and the lower chamber of Congress, the United States...
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    (September 22, 2016), English: Trewartha climate types for the contiguous United States, archived from the original on March 30, 2019, retrieved March...
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