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Yes. The US has 48 contiguous states (states next to each other) and two that are not contiguous, Hawaii and Alaska.
The word contiguous means touching or connected. The contiguous US refers to the largest connected piece of American land. This happens to be the land situated between Mexico and Canada, which is also referred to as the Lower 48 because it contains forty-eight states. Therefore, the 48 states that are joined together are considered the contiguous United States, leaving Hawaii and Alaska as stand-alone states.The contiguous US is sometimes mistaken with the continental US. The continental US refers to the area of the US that is located on the continent of North America. This is just the contiguous US in addition to Alaska. Yet, Hawaii is not a part of the continental US either.It means it does not physically touch other states. Hawaii has an ocean between itself and other states. Alaska has another country- Canada- between it and another state.
Washington State has over 75 percent of all glaciers in the contiguous United States, mostly on the Cascade volcanoes - which alone have over half the permanent ice. There are also sizeable glaciers in the Olympic Mountains futher west.The reason for Washington State having the vast bulk of contiguous United States glaciers is that it has abundant moisture from the Aleutian Low. This very strong cyclone drives moist air over high mountains, which freeze this air and covert it into incredible quantities of snow at elevations over 10,000 feet. On the highest peaks of Alaska, mean annual snowfall can probably reach 150 metres or 5,900 inches, none of which will melt at the elevation of Mount Logan.Whilst many other states of the American West reach similar elevations to Washington, none has the same enormous snowfall. California and Oregon have glaciers north of latitude 36 degrees, which become quite large on the Three Sisters, whilst Colorado, Montana and Wyoming have small glaciers.The four southwestern states of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada are so dry that glaciers cannot form even at mean annual temperatures below freezing.
Contiguous in geography terms means the states that are touching for example- New Mexico and Texas are CONTIGUOUS (they are touching); California and Hawaii are NOT CONTGUOUS (they are not toching) Similar to states, contiguous counties are counties that share a common boundary and they often span more than one state. However, some are separated by water ways such as lakes or rivers and may not technically "touch" without a gap. That happens when the official county boundaries only extend to the edge of water-way but not to its center. Although not technically contiguous, most still count it as so.
It is formed when two glaciers erode parallel from each other or when two glaciers erode towards each other
48 states are contiguous. Two states, Alaska and Hawaii are non-contiguous.
You answered your own question. There are the Continental United States , or contiguous states, and the non-contiguous States . Although Alaska is continental , it touches no other state.
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Contiguous United States
Yes. The US has 48 contiguous states (states next to each other) and two that are not contiguous, Hawaii and Alaska.
alaska and hawaii
48 states are part of the contiguous United States. Alaska and Hawaii do not touch any other U.S. state.
The contiguous 48.
if a state is out of the contiguous United States, it means that the state is not connected to the united states and obviously the other countries are like that too if some cities aren't connected to them
The non-contiguous states. Alaska and Hawaii.
The Continental or Contiguous US means the states that touch each other. The contiguous United States are the "Lower 48" States on the continent of North America that are south of Canada, plus the Capital (Washington, D.C.) The term excludes the states of Alaska and Hawaii, and all off-shore territories and possessions, such as Puerto Rico.There are 50 US states, but only 48 are 48 contiguous states. Alaska and Hawaii are the only 2 that are not part of the mainland and do not have a border with the other 48 states.
Contiguous means that their borders are touching the continental US. Alaska and Hawaii do not touch the mainland.