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By far, most land owned by the federal government is in the American West. The feds own almost 47 percent of the 11 coterminous Western states, which include California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington State, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. The U.S. government owns a whopping 85 percent of land in the state of Nevada.
Source: tatoeba (12243953)
New York's borough of Brooklyn and Kings County are coterminous.
Source: wiktionary
To get a building warrant he had to show the plans to "coterminous proprietors", neighbours with whom his property shared a boundary.
Source: wiktionary
It has been the close vicinity of slave-owners to each other, the fact that their lands have been coterminous, that theirs was especially a cotton district, which has tempted them to secession.
Source: wiktionary
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