Why are the United states larger the further west you go?

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Why are the United states larger the further west you go?

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Because the country started on the East Coast as smaller colonies. When these colonies broke away from England to create a new country, they mostly just kept their borders. And then the US started to expand to the West and there weren’t pre-defined borders so the territories that started forming and then applying for statehood basically came up with their own.

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