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Asia is the continent closest to California. Specifically, the closest point in Asia to California is the eastern coast of Russia, which lies across the Bering Strait from Alaska.
There is some dispute as to where the earliest people in The Americas came from. Many historians believe they traveled across a then frozen Bering Strait all the way from Siberia and then traveled down through what is now Canada and America.
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The shortest distance between the United States and Russia is approximately 55 miles across the Bering Strait, which separates the eastern tip of Russia (Siberia) from the western tip of Alaska.
The three neighboring countries of the USA are Canada to the north, Mexico to the south, and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait.
The only country (continent) west of Alaska (across the Bering Strait) is Russia. There is a small American island, Little Diomede Island, in between.
Alaska has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait.
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Alaska is the U.S. state that is the closest to Russia. Russia is west of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
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Asia is just across the Bering Strait from Alaska
Apart from Canada, Alaska is closest to the Russian Federation which lies to the west of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
Across the Bering Strait which separates Siberia from Alaska, and during prehistoric times when the strait was frozen solid.
West of the contiguous states is only the Pacific Ocean. West of Alaska, across the Bering Strait (and the International Date Line) is Russia, from which the United States purchased Alaska.
Alaska - Western Russia is just across the Bering Strait.
Canada to the east and across the Bering Straight is Russia.