contiguous

adjective3

1. •
   Connected; touching; abutting.
2. •
   Adjacent; neighboring.

   • Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed — 1730
3. •
   Connecting without a break.

   • the forty-eight contiguous states