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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 ...
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]
South Carolina: Unincorporated, Pickens is the highest incorporated town at 1,120 feet (340 m). A golf resort development on top of Glassy Mountain in Greenville County exists at 2,760 feet, [38] but it is not considered a community by the Geographic Names Information System, which documents communities in the United States. 5315 feet (1620 m ...
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.
Blackstone River – 48 miles (77 km) Pawcatuck River – 34 miles (55 km) Wood River – 25 miles (40 km) Moosup River – 24 miles (39 km) Ten Mile River – 22 miles (35 km) Mill River – 17 miles (27 km) Woonasquatucket River – 16 miles (26 km) Sakonnet River – 14 miles (23 km) Ponaganset River – 12.5 miles (20.1 km)
Alaska's territorial waters touch Russia's territorial waters in the Bering Strait, as the Russian Big Diomede Island and Alaskan Little Diomede Island are only 3 miles (4.8 km) apart. 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)
Oregon border on the Columbia River south of Reed Island State Park 45°59′43″N 116°54′58″W / 45.99528°N 116.91611°W / 45.99528; -116.91611 ID-OR-WA tripoint on the Snake River