Coastal states

States that have an Ocean/Gulf of Mexico coastline

States that have a Great Lake coastline

A coastal state is a state that is not landlocked.

Thirty states in the United States have a coastline. This includes an ocean coast, a gulf coast, or a Great Lake coast. There are twenty three ocean/gulf of Mexico states, and eight Great Lake states. (New York is both an ocean state and a Great Lake state.) As of July 2004, the estimated population of states that are always considered coastal states was 171,891,161.

Ocean states:

Atlantic Ocean states:

Pacific Ocean states:

Gulf of Mexico states:

Arctic Ocean states:

Alaska

Lake states:

Great Lake states:

Regions of the United States

Administrative
(political)

Units	U.S. state District of Columbia Insular area Minor Outlying Island Maritime territory

Time zones	Hawaii–Aleutian Alaska Pacific Mountain Central Eastern

Census	West Pacific Mountain Midwest E N Central W N Central Northeast New England Middle Atlantic South S Atlantic E S Central W S Central

Courts of appeals	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th

Physical

Physiographic	Pacific Mountain Intermontane Plateaus Rocky Mountain Superior Upland Interior Plains Interior Highlands Appalachian Atlantic Plain

Coastal	Arctic West Great Lakes Gulf East

Historical

Acquisitions	Thirteen Colonies Northwest Territory Southwest Territory Louisiana Purchase Gadsden Purchase Texas annexation Oregon Treaty Mexican Cession Alaska Purchase Newlands Resolution

Civil War	Union Border states Confederacy Old South Dixie Slave and free states Theaters Pacific Western Trans-Mississippi Lower Seaboard Eastern

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Category

Coastal states

See also