A coastal state is a state that is not landlocked.
Thirty states in the United States have a coastline. This includes an ocean coast, a gulf coast, or a Great Lake coast. There are twenty three ocean/gulf of Mexico states, and eight Great Lake states. (New York is both an ocean state and a Great Lake state.) As of July 2004, the estimated population of states that are always considered coastal states was 171,891,161.
Ocean states:
Atlantic Ocean states:
Pacific Ocean states:
Gulf of Mexico states:
Arctic Ocean states:
Lake states:
Great Lake states: