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en-wikipedia-org-6207		Contiguous United States - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3014	493	65	The contiguous United States or officially the conterminous United States[1] consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states (plus the District of Columbia) on the continent of North America.[2] The terms exclude the non-contiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii, and all other off-shore insular areas, such as American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico.[3][4] These differ from the related term continental United States, which includes Alaska (also on the North American continent but separated from the 48 states by British Columbia, Canada) but excludes the Hawaiian Islands and all U.S. territories in the Caribbean and the Pacific.[1][5] CONUS, 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.[17][18] The District of Columbia is not always specifically mentioned as being part of CONUS.[18]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6207.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6207.txt