Does the address book have a physical data file somewhere?

Hi all:
Sorry about the transition questions..but
On windows, all the contacts in outlook actually were based off of (and saved to) a physical outlook data file called .pst.
In Mac, when you add new contacts and look at your contacts in Address Book, is there an actual phsyical address-book-data file located somewhere?

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