Contributor: Alison Weiss. Lesson ID: 10847
What is the state of your knowledge of the 50 U.S. states? Where are they? Do they all touch? Learn a memory song, play online games, and learn the names and locations of all the states!
The United States is made up of 50 states..
48 of them are contiguous, which means the states are next to one another, and their borders are touching. This is also called the continental United States.
The 48 contiguous states are listed below.
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On the bottom left of the map above are the two states that are not in the continental U.S. — Alaska and Hawaii.
Watch the video below as many times as you can so you can remember the states! It might help to memorize the states in each region first.
Test your knowledge of the location of the states with The U.S.:50 States - Map Quiz Game.
Then, move along to the Got It? section for some more practice!