Fifth Grade
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Explore Fun Facts about the United States
The United States has how many states? Stop and think about it. You are right if you say there are fifty states. There are forty-eight states whose borders touch each other. There are two states that do not share a border with any other state. A border is a line where one state starts and another state stops. You cross a border when you travel from one state to another. Another name for this border is "state line." Hawaii and Alaska are the two states that do not share state lines with any other states. Hawaii is a group of islands. Islands have water on all four sides. Alaska is not an island. It is different. Find Washington on a map. Washington is a state. Look north to find Alaska. Alaska does not touch any other state. .....
