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Since the lower 48 states create neither a circle, sphere or cylinder, they have no circumference.

New Answer(The previous poster shows a limited understanding of the English language. It is indeed quite proper to refer to the boundary line of an irregular area as a circumference.)

To arrive at the answer, simply go to the CIA World Factbook for the geography of the United States, and add the Coastlines plus the geographical borders of Mexico and Canada...

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Don't forget to subtract the coastline of Alaska (6640mi.) and Hawaii (750mi.) especially since Alaska's coastline is greater than that of the continental United States!

You'll end up with something near 10,900 miles which reasonably corresponds to the commonly accepted approximation of 10,000 miles for the circumference of the continental United States.

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circumference is the distance around a circle or a sphere. therefore the continental us can not have a circumference

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The continental United States is about 3.14 million square miles.

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