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Austin is the southernmost state capital in the contiguous United States and is considered a Gamma-level global city as categorized by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. As of 2021, Austin had an estimated population of 964,177, up from 961,855 at the 2020 census.
2023 Chinese balloon incident. From January 28 to February 4, 2023, a high-altitude balloon originating from China flew across North American airspace, including Alaska, western Canada, and the contiguous United States. [2] On February 4, the U.S. Air Force shot down the balloon over U.S. territorial waters off the coast of South Carolina.
Mar 14, 2011 · The Geographic Center of the Contiguous United States is located about two miles northwest of Lebanon, Kansas. A small stone pyramid marks the point measured by a survey performed in 1918. A ...
Hurricane Michael was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that became the first Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States since Andrew in 1992. It was the third-most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in the contiguous United States in terms of pressure, behind the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and ...
The geographic center of the contiguous U.S. is defined as 39°50' N latitude, 98°35' W longitude (+39.833333°, -98.583333° decimal degrees). This position is located on private land, so a proxy marker was erected in 1940 in a small public park about half a mile from the official location. This park is accessed via state highway 191, one ...
The United States airspace system's classification scheme is intended to maximize pilot flexibility within acceptable levels of risk appropriate to the type of operation and traffic density within that class of airspace – in particular to provide separation and active control in areas of dense or high-speed flight operations.
The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia of the United States of America in central North America. [1] [2] The term excludes the only two non- contiguous states, which are Alaska and Hawaii (they are also the last two states to be admitted to ...
