NationMaster - American Geography statistics

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	[4th of 238]
Area > Total	9,826,630 sq km	[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
Land boundaries > Border countries Canada 8,893 km (including 2,477 km with Alaska), Mexico 3,141 km
Land use > Arable land	18.01%	[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	[151st of 204]
Precipitation	1,201 mm	[25th of 95]
Surface area > sq. km	9,632,030 km²	[3rd of 206]
tallest mountains > Mountain	Mount McKinley