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North America > United States > Geography

AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Area > Comparative
about half the size of Russia; about three-tenths the size of Africa; about half the size of South America (or slightly larger than Brazil); slightly larger than China; almost two and a half times the size of the European Union
Area > Land 9,161,923 sq km Time series [4th of 238]
Area > Total 9,826,630 sq km Time series [9th of 250]
Capital city with population
Washington, D.C. - 606,900
Climate
mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
Forested Land 24.7% [109th of 193]
Geographic coordinates 38 00 N, 97 00 W Time series
Land boundaries > Border countries
Canada 8,893 km (including 2,477 km with Alaska), Mexico 3,141 km
Land use > Arable land 18.01% Time series [62nd of 258]
Largest city New York
Largest city population 16,332,000 [4th of 174]
Largest city with population New York City - 8,168,338
Location
North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico
Map references
North America
Natural resources
coal, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber; note: the US has the world's largest coal reserves with 491 billion short tons accounting for 27% of the world's total
Population density 29.77 people per sqkm [168th of 256]
Population density > people per sq. km 32.35 people/m² Time series [151st of 204]
Precipitation 1,201 mm [25th of 95]
Surface area > sq. km 9,632,030 km² Time series [3rd of 206]
tallest mountains > Mountain Mount McKinley

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006 ; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook, City Population, CIA World Factbook, World Gazetteer, Official government websites.; FAO; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Heal The World Foundation.; World Development Indicators database; Wikipedia: List of tallest mountains by country

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United States, United States of America, usa, America, The United States, u.s.

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D.S. (?)
14th November 2008
you should add the altitude, imports and exports onto this.
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