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This is a list of the extreme points of the United States of America: the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location, as well as the highest and lowest points.
Latitude and longitude
The geographic center of the United States of America (including Alaska and Hawai'i) is located west of Castle Rock, South Dakota (44°58′N 103°46′W / 44.967°N 103.767°W)
- North : Point Barrow or Nuvuk (Alaska) (71°23′20″N 156°28′45″W / 71.38889°N 156.47917°W)
- South : Ka Lae, also known as South Point (Hawai'i) (18°55′N 155°41′W / 18.917°N 155.683°W)
- West : Cape Wrangell, Attu Island, in the Aleutians (Alaska) (52°51′N 173°11′E / 52.850°N 173.183°E)[1]
- East : West Quoddy Head near Lubec, Maine (44°49′N 66°57′W / 44.817°N 66.950°W)
Altitude
- Maximum : Mount McKinley (Alaska) 20,320 feet above sea level.
- Minimum : Death Valley (California) 282 feet below sea level.
See also
- ^ If measured relative to the prime meridian in Greenwich, England, Cape Wrangell, Attu Island, Alaska, would be the easternmost point.