Claim: The Midwestern United States includes South Korea.
Evidence: The Midwestern United States , also referred to as the American Midwest or simply the Midwest , is one of the four geographic regions defined by the United States Census Bureau , occupying the northern central part of the United States of America.
Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico.
The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean.
South Korea , officially the Republic of Korea -LRB- ROK ; -RRB- , is a sovereign state in East Asia , constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.