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  "generatedAt": "2026-05-19",
  "source": "NOAA Office for Coastal Management, U.S. Coastline Length figures (general coastline = open-ocean facing only; tidal shoreline = includes bays, sounds, estuaries, and tidal rivers; Great Lakes figures from NOAA Coastal Management Program). Coastline measurements were standardised in the 1939 NOAA Coast and Geodetic Survey report and have been periodically updated.",
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  "totalGreatLakesShorelineMi": 5345,
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  "greatLakesStates": 8,
  "landlockedStates": 23,
  "alaskaShareOfTotalPct": 53.6,
  "headline": "Alaska's 6,640-mile ocean coastline is longer than all other 49 states combined.",
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