Definitions for continental united states
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1. continental United Statesnoun

   The largest portion of the United States which is not separated by any ocean or non-U.S. land; the United States exclusive of Alaska, Hawaii, and other overseas territories.

2. continental United Statesnoun

   The portion of the United States which is located on the North American continent; the United States exclusive of Hawaii and other overseas territories.

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1. continental united states

   The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the Federal District of the United States of America. The term excludes the only two non-contiguous states, Alaska and Hawaii (also the last ones admitted to the Union), and all other offshore insular areas, such as American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The colloquial term "Lower 48" is used also, especially in relation to just Alaska (Hawaii is farther south). The related but distinct term continental United States includes Alaska (which is also on the continent of North America but separated from the 48 states by British Columbia and Yukon of Canada), but excludes the Hawaiian Islands and all U.S. territories in the Caribbean and the Pacific.The greatest distance (on a great-circle route) entirely within the contiguous U.S. is 2,802 miles (4,509 km), between Florida and the State of Washington; the greatest north–south line is 1,650 miles (2,660 km). The contiguous U.S. occupies an area of 3,119,884.69 square miles (8,080,464.3 km2). Of this area, 2,959,064.44 square miles (7,663,941.7 km2) is actual land, composing 83.65% of the total U.S. land area, and is slightly smaller than the area of Australia. Officially, 160,820.25 square miles (416,522.5 km2) of the contiguous United States is water area, composing 62.66% of the nation's total water area. The contiguous United States, if it were a country, would be placed fifth on the list of countries and dependencies by area. However, the total area of the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii, ranks third or fourth. In land area only, the country ranks fourth, behind Russia, Canada and China, but ahead of Brazil and Australia. Brazil is 431,000 square kilometers (166,000 sq mi) larger than the contiguous United States, but smaller than the entire United States, while Russia, Canada, and maybe China are the only countries larger than both. The 2020 census population of this area was 328,571,074, comprising 99.13% of the nation's population, and a density of 111.04 inhabitants/sq mi (42.872/km2), compared to 93.844/sq mi (36.233/km2) for the nation as a whole.

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1. Continental United States

   The states of the United States occurring on the North American land mass, including Alaska but not including Hawaii or U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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1. continental United States

   United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of continental united states in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of continental united states in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of continental united states in a Sentence

1. Jenn Varian:

   Elevation is a huge factor for snow in the Western US as elevation varies widely, our forecast area has both the highest elevation and the lowest elevation point in the CONUS( continental United States). And they're in the same county !

2. Ross MacPhee:

   Despite their ungainly appearance, different species of glyptodonts occupied habitats as distinct as open grassland and dense woodland, all the way from Patagonia to the southern parts of the continental United States, although their disappearance has been blamed on human depredation as well as climate change, some species persisted into the early part of the modern or Holocene epoch, long after the disappearance of mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Like the loss of giant ground sloths, mastodons, and dozens of other remarkable mammalian species, the precise cause of the New World megafaunal extinctions remains uncertain.

3. Brad Rippey:

   Whereas La Niña is historically a ‘drought maker’ for the continental United States, El Niño is a ‘drought breaker,’ although the exact location of drought, or lack thereof, varies considerably from event to event.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Continental_United_States
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_United_States
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=continental united states
4. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf