The Midwestern United States includes South Korea.
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 .	geographic regions	Census Bureau Region	United States Census Bureau	United States Census Bureau	United States of America	United States
Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico .	North	North America	states	U.S. state	federal district	Washington, D.C.	Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district	Contiguous United States	North America	North America	Canada	Canada	Mexico	Mexico
The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean .	Hawaii	Hawaii	state of Hawaii	Hawaii	archipelago	archipelago	Pacific Ocean	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 .	Korean	Koreans	sovereign state	sovereign state	East Asia	East Asia	Korean Peninsula	Korean Peninsula
