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Western United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3440 words) |
 | Red states show the core of the West, states shown as pink may or may not be included in the West, and thus their inclusion or exclusion varies from source to source. |
| Mount Whitney, at 4,421 metres (14,505 feet) the tallest peak in the contiguous 48 states, is in the Sierra Nevada. |
| Statistics from the 2000 United States Census, adjusted to include the second tier of States west of the Mississippi, show that under that defintion the West would have a population of 91,457,662, including 1,611,447 Indians, or 1.8% of the total, and 22,377,288 Hispanics (the majority Mexican), or 24.5% of the total. |
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