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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    of the United States or portions thereof. It includes American Indians from the contiguous United States and Alaska Natives. The United States Census...
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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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    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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    of the United States, commonly 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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    originating from the United States. It was built in stages. The first, not long after one could drive across the United States on a paved road, was the...
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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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    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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    The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives...
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    Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Since the 1850s, its main political rival has been the Republican Party...
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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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    telephone survey of 54,461 American residential households in the contiguous United States. The 1990 sample size was 113,723; 2001 sample size was 50,281...
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    Navy and Marine Corps Medal. Installations and locations in the contiguous United States. Buckley Cheyenne Mountain Cape Canaveral Cape Cod Cavalier Los...
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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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    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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    11, 1917). During World War II, the defense of Hawaii and the contiguous United States was part of the Pacific theater and American theater respectively...
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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 Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau...
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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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    The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together, they...
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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 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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