Geographic contiguity is the characteristic in geography of political or geographical land divisions, as a group, not being interrupted by other land or water. Such divisions are referred to as being contiguous. In the United States , for example, the " 48 contiguous states " excludes Hawaii and Alaska , which do not share borders with other U.S. states .
4-593: A List of landforms of the Nellis & Wildlife 5 Ranges region . The following ranges are: The five contiguous regions are located north and northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada . The Las Vegas Range of the Desert National Wildlife Range borders the north perimeter of North Las Vegas . Mountain Ranges Other landforms Associated: Associated: Associated: The Nellis Air Force Range contains all of
8-504: Is important in biology , especially animal ranges . For a particular species, its habitat may be a ' contiguous range ', or it might be broken, requiring periodic, typically seasonal migrations (see: Disjunct distribution ). The same concept of contiguous range is true for human transportation studies in an attempt to understand census geography. It also comes into play with electoral geography and politics. In United States real property and mineral rights law, touching of two tracts at
12-553: The "contiguous United Kingdom" referring to all parts of the country excepting Northern Ireland (it being geographically non-contiguous). Two or more contiguous municipalities can be consolidated into one, or one municipality can consist of many noncontiguous elements. For example, the Financially Distressed Municipalities Act allows the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to merge contiguous municipalities to reduce financial distress . Geographic contiguity
16-521: The Desert National Wildlife Range, except in the entire east, the Sheep and Las Vegas Ranges, and Desert Lake. Mountain ranges Landforms Associated: Mountain ranges Landforms Associated: Geographic contiguity Other examples of geographical contiguity might include the "contiguous European Union " excluding member states such as Ireland, Sweden, Finland (between Åland and Turku Archipelago ), Malta and Cyprus (these being non-contiguous), or
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