Continental Confederate States



The contiguous Confederate States, or officially, the conterminous Confederate States consists of the 22 adjoining C.S. states (plus the District of the Confederacy) on the continent of North America. The terms exclude the non-contiguous states of Alaska, Hawaii, Mariana Islands, New Caledonia, Polynesia, Bahamas, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Guiana, and all other off-shore insular areas, such as Midway Atoll, Kingman Reef, the Providence Islands, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll, Wake Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Baker Island, and Howland Island.

The greatest distance (on a great circle route) entirely within the 22 contiguous states is 2,541 miles (4,090 km, between Florida and California); the greatest north-south line is 1,106 miles (1,780 km) from the southernmost point of Jefferson to the US-CS border at New Mexico. The greatest east-west line is 2,317 miles (3,729 km) from just south of San Diego to the Potomac shores of Virginia.

Together, the 22 contiguous states and the District of the Confederacy occupy a combined area of 1,646,395.94 square miles (4,264,083 km2). Of this area, 2,257,572.592 square miles (5,847,086.1707 km2) is contiguous land, composing 93.19% of total C.S. land area, similar to the area of India. Officially, 165,517.26 square miles (428,687.7354km2) of the contiguous Confederate States is water area, composing 6.83% of the nation's total water area.

The contiguous Confederate States would be placed 8th in the list of sovereign states and dependencies by area; the total area of the country, including all island states and territories, ranks seventh. In land area only, the country ranks eigth, ahead of India, but behind Indonesia. The Confederate States is halfway between Indonesia and India in size, but smaller than the entire United States, while Russia, Canada, Australia, Brazil, China, and the United States are the only countries larger than both. The 2020 census population of this area was 257,561,917, comprising 99.97% of the nation's population, and a density of 106.3347 inhabitants/sq mi (41.0565/km2), compared to 106.3330/sq mi (41.0558/km2) for the nation as a whole.