There are 16 US states that are landlocked. These landlocked states are the following: Arizona, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Arkansas, Idaho, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia. What does landlocked mean anyway?
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This means that they are locked by land. There is a need to travel to other states in order to reach a body of water. There are some that are single landlocked which means that only one state needs to be passed through to get to a body of water but there are some that would require traveling to 2 US states and one Canadian province just to get to a body of water.