List of U.S. states and territories by coastline

Two separate measurements are used: method 1 only includes states with ocean coastline and excludes tidal inlets; method 2 includes Great Lake shoreline and the extra length from tidal inlets.

The figure for Connecticut was arrived at separately and may not reflect the correct comparative distance.

The data for method 2 is from a list maintained by the Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management of NOAA.

[3] These numbers also include the Great Lakes coastlines, which do not have similar tidal areas.

Data for the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands is from the CIA World Factbook.

States shaded dark blue have ocean coastline.*
States shaded light blue have Great Lakes coastline.*
States shaded white have no coastline.
* New York has both ocean and Great Lakes coastline.