### Question
What is the definition of United States?


### Answer
The definition of **United States** is as follows in *7 U.S.C. § 4531*:

> the several States and the territories and possessions of the United States, except that for purposes of sections 4532, 4534(a), and 4537 of this title, and paragraph (7) of this section, such term means the forty-eight contiguous States in the continental United States

#### Citation:
  - *7 U.S.C. § 4531*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 76-DAIRY RESEARCH AND PROMOTION > SUBCHAPTER II-DAIRY RESEARCH PROGRAM**

