20240205 15311300 1.0 TRUE State Boundaries The Bureau of Census 207 cartographic boundary simplified to represent selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. States and equivalent entities are the primary governmental divisions of the United States. Bureau of Census