contiguous

Adjective

• having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching; Massachusetts and Conncecticut"
  • Rhode Island has two bordering states
    
  • the side of Germany conterminous with France
    
  • Utah and the contiguous state of Idaho
    
  • neighboring cities
    

• connecting without a break; within a common boundary
  • the 48 conterminous states
    
  • the contiguous 48 states
    

• very close or connected in space or time
  • contiguous events
    
  • immediate contact
    
  • the immediate vicinity
    
  • the immediate past
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  adjacent , conterminous , neighboring(a) , immediate