List of landlocked U.S. states

A landlocked state in the United States is any state whose territorial boundaries do not touch an ocean. All landlocked states are located among the contiguous 48 states on the North American mainland.

If one must travel through only one other U.S. state or a single Canadian province to reach an ocean, the state is referred to as "singly landlocked". If one must travel through two U.S. states, or one U.S. state and one Canadian province, the state is referred to as "doubly landlocked". If one must travel through three U.S. states, or two U.S. states and one Canadian province to reach an ocean, the state is "triply landlocked".

Hawaii is completely insular, and 23 states are coastal. Of the remaining 27 states and the District of Columbia, 16 states and the federal capital are singly landlocked, 10 are doubly landlocked; and just one, Nebraska, is triply landlocked.

Singly landlocked

The 16 singly landlocked states, and the District of Columbia, with routes to their nearest ocean:

Doubly landlocked

The 10 doubly landlocked states, with routes to their nearest ocean:

Triply landlocked

Nebraska is the only triply landlocked state. To reach an ocean from Nebraska, one must travel either south through Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas to the Gulf of Mexico; or north through South Dakota, North Dakota and Manitoba to Hudson Bay.

Lake borders

Eight states border the Great Lakes, but New York is the only one that borders both the Great Lakes and an ocean. Four of the other seven are singly landlocked; Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin are doubly landlocked. Michigan and Ohio both have water boundaries with Ontario, which bounds the Arctic Ocean. Wisconsin's territorial waters in Lake Superior, however, do not touch those of Ontario, but they form the southerly point of a three-way water boundary with Michigan and Minnesota.

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