where is the exact center of the contiguous united states?
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- Geographic Center of the United States Map. The Geographic Center of the United States (contiguous 48) is located about two miles northwest of Lebanon, Kansas. Take US Highway 281 north 1 mile, and turn west one mile on K-191 to the maker that has been erected at the end of the paved road.
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Geography of the United States The term  United States , when used in the geographical sense, is the contiguous United States, the state of Alaska, the island state of Hawaii, the five insular territories of Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, and minor outlying possessions.
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- Note that the geographic center of the entire U.S. is northeast of Belle Fourche in Butte County, South Dakota 44°58′N 103°46′W / 44.967°N 103.767°W / 44.967; -103.767, while that of the contiguous 48 is near Lebanon in Smith County, Kansas 39°50′N 98°35′W / 39.833°N 98.583°W / 39.833; -98.583 (Geographic Center of the Contiguous United States).
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The Northwest Angle in Minnesota â Only for the Sake of Geography In June of 2009, I visited the Geographic Center of the United States in Kansas. The final point, the northernmost point, was something I had planned later in that trip. The northernmost point is a geographic anomaly. It is the only point in the continental United States that lies north of the 49th Parallel. It is technically part of Minnesota, but it is not connected to the rest of Minnesota by land.
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Alaska Geography The geographic center (green arrow) of Alaska is located approximately 60 miles northwest (NW) of Mt. McKinley Latitude: 63° 50'N Longitude: 152° W: Total area: Alaska covers 656,425 square miles, making it the largest of the 50 states and more than twice the size of Texas, the second largest state. Land area Approximately 570,374 square miles of Alaska are land areas.
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Alaska The largest state (in area) of the United States, Alaska was admitted to the union as the 49th state in 1959, and lies at the extreme northwest of the North American continent.
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- Alaska is the northernmost state of the United States. The Northwest Angle of Minnesota is the northernmost point of the contiguous 48 states. It consists of a small peninsu…la on the Lake of the Woods at 49.27 N 95.05 W. Xiomara Mondragã³n Picon.
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- If you’d prefer a less remote northern point, try Northwest Angle, which is the point farthest north in the contiguous U.S. Well, technically it’s not contiguous – the area is an enclave bordered by Canada, and reachable either by driving across the border, by boat, or by ice road in the winter.
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Geography Statistics of United States Of America 1 Horizontal Width: 2,680 miles. 2  Vertical Length: 1,582 miles.  Geographic Center: In the continental 48 states, it is a point 2 miles to the northwest of Lebanon, Kansas; with Alaska and Hawaii included, that point is near Belle Fourche, South Dakota.
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- 1 Seattle, Washington 47°36′13.81″N 122°19′48.56″W / 47.6038361°N 122.3301556°W / 47.6038361; -122.3301556 (Seattle City Hall) – northernmost city of more than 500,000 residents in the United States.  Alaska has the northernmost geographic center of all the states.
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Contiguous United States Officially, 160,820.25 square miles (416,522.5 km2) is water area, composing 62.66% of the nation's total water area. The contiguous United States would be placed 5th in the list of sovereign states and dependencies by area; the total area of the country, including Alaska and Hawaii, ranks fourth.
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Proposed US military buildup on Guam angers locals who liken it to colonization Tourists pose for selfies on a white-sand beach, or splash in the aquamarine waters off Ritidian Point, the northernmost tip of Guam, the Pacific island territory “where America’s day begins”. It’s an idyllic scene, but just out of sight, hidden behind high limestone cliffs, the US military is poised for war.
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- The Geographical Center of North America is located in Rugby, North Dakota-population 3,000. In January 1931 this location was established by the United States Geographical Survey. You can read how this was determined on the link below. The stone cairn beside Highway 2 was completed in August 1932 by W.B.
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United States Of America The United States of America, commonly called the United States (US, or USA, or America), consists of fifty states and a federal district. The 48 contiguous states and the federal district of Washington, D.C. are positioned in central North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is west of Canada and east of Russia across the Bering Strait, and the state of Hawaii is in the mid-North Pacific.
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Geographic center of the United States The geographic center of the United States is a point approximately 20 mi (32 km) north of Belle Fourche, South Dakota (Lat. 44 58 02.07622(N) Long. 103 46 17.60283(W)). It has been regarded as such by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey (NGS) since the additions of Alaska and Hawaii to the United States in 1959.
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How many states are not in the contiguous United States? It's Hawaii and Alaska. Adi­tion­al­ly, Hawaii is the only state not located in the Amer­i­c­as.
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- 1 Geographic Center: In the continental 48 states, it is a point 2 miles to the northwest of Lebanon, Kansas; with Alaska and Hawaii included, that point is near Belle Fourche, South Dakota.  Mt. McKinley, (Alaska) 20,320 ft. (6,194 m).
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Alaska Alaska [41] is the 49th and largest state in the United States of America. Separated from the rest of the country, (the lower 48), by Canada, Alaska lies on the Arctic Circle. It is still the least densely populated state in the union and for a long time was home to the lowest population.
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- List of extreme points of the United States - Westernmost points. 1  Point Udall, Guam (13°26′51″N 144°37′5.5″E / 13.44750°N 144.618194°E / 13.44750; 144.618194 (Point Udall, Guam)) – westernmost point in all U.S. territory, by direction of travel.
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Where is Alaska? Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U.S. states combined. It is the only non-contiguous U.S. state on continental North America; about 500 miles (800 km) of British Columbia (Canada) separates Alaska from Washington.laska is thus an exclave of the United States, possibly the largest exclave in the world. It is technically part of the continental U.S. , but is often not included in colloquial use; Alaska is not part of the contiguous U.S., often called the Lower 48 .
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Worlds Largest Bear Shot In Alaska The largest state in the US, in northwestern North America, with coasts on the Arctic and North Pacific oceans and on the Bering Sea, separated from the contiguous 48 US states by Canada; pop. 626,932; capital, Juneau; statehood: Jan. 3, 1959 (49). The territory was purchased from Russia in 1867.
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- 1 Vertical Length: 1,582 miles. 2  Geographic Center: In the continental 48 states, it is a point 2 miles to the northwest of Lebanon, Kansas; with Alaska and Hawaii included, that point is near Belle Fourche, South Dakota. 3  Highest Point: Mt. McKinley, (Alaska) 20,320 ft. ( 4 6,194 m).
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Contiguous United States Alaska became the 49th state of the United States on January 3, 1959. Alaska is on the northwest end of the North American continent, but separated from the rest of the United States by the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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- Officially, 160,820.25 square miles (416,522.5 km 2) is water area, composing 62.66% of the nation's water area. The contiguous United States would be placed 5th in the list of countries and dependencies by area; the total area of the country, including Alaska and Hawaii, ranks third.ONUS, a technical term used by the U.S. Department of Defense, General Services Administration, NOAA/National Weather Service, and others has been defined both as the continental United States, and as the 48 contiguous states.
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El Centro, California El Centro is also the largest American city to lie entirely below sea level (−42 feet or −13 meters). The city, located in the far southeastern corner of California, is near the major Southern California city of San Diego and the Mexican city of Mexicali.
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Contiguous United States (federal district), on the continent of North America. The term excludes the non-contiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii and all off-shore United States territories and possessions, which include American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.