Coastal states

States that have an Ocean/Gulf of Mexico coastline

States that have a Great Lake coastline

The U.S. Coastal states are states in the United States that have a coastline. This can be 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.) In all, there are thirty coastal states. As of July 2004, the estimated population of states that are always considered coastal states was 171,891,161.

Atlantic Ocean states:

Pacific Ocean states

Gulf of Mexico states:

Great Lake states:

Arctic Ocean states:

Alaska

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

Cessions and accessions	Thirteen Colonies 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

Divided

Other

List
Category

Coastal states

See also