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Exclusive economic zone maritime boundaries in the Caribbean Sea and equatorial Atlantic Ocean EEZ maritime boundaries in the Pacific Ocean. The United States has land borders with Canada to the North, and Mexico to the South and a maritime boundary with Russia to the West, as well as maritime boundaries with several countries of the extensive exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Watersheds of North America are large drainage basins which drain to separate oceans, seas, gulfs, or endorheic basins. There are six generally recognized hydrological continental divides which divide the continent into seven principal drainage basins spanning three oceans ( Arctic , Atlantic and Pacific ) and one endorheic basin.
The Southern Ocean is a proposed ocean surrounding Antarctica, dominated by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, generally the ocean south of 60 degrees south latitude. The Southern Ocean is partially covered in sea ice, the extent of which varies according to the season. The Southern Ocean is the second smallest of the five named oceans.
The Harbor at Galveston, by Verner Moore White (1863–1923). The Gulf of Mexico [b] (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [4] [5] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [6]
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]
Pacific Ocean through the Bering Sea. Kuskokwim River 702 mi (1,130 km) Pacific Ocean through the Gulf of California. Colorado River 862 mi (1,387 km) (Mexico and U.S.) Fuerte River (in Mexico) Great Basin watershed (does not reach oceans) Bear River 350 mi (560 km) Humboldt River 290 mi (470 km) Sevier River 385 mi (620 km)
* New York has both ocean and Great Lakes coastline. This is a list of U.S. states and territories ranked by their coastline length. 30 states have a coastline: 23 with a coastline on the Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean (including the Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Maine), and/or Pacific Ocean, and 8 with a Great Lakes shoreline.
List of states and territories with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean (including the Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black Seas). ... United States Virgin Islands (USA)