Spans six time zones in its states alone, and has the world's largest economy and most national park visitors.
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United States of America
United States of America ยท United States
North America
ยท Northern America
0Population
9.37Mkmยฒ of land
$65.3KGDP / person
Washington, D.C.Capital
- ISO codes
- US ยท USA
- Density
- 35 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Dial code
- +1
- Internet domain
- .us
- Time zones
- 29
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 39.5380ยฐ N, 97.4830ยฐ W
- Demonym
- American
- UN region
- Americas ยท Northern America
- Economy
- Developed region: G7
- Income group
- High income: OECD
- Total GDP
- $21.43T
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 2
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By the numbers
How United States of America stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
3rd
of 242 ยท 4.28% of world population
Land area
5th
of 242 ยท 6.25% of world land
GDP per person
15th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
172nd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about United States of America
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 328,239,523 people, the 3rd largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 4.28 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 9,372,610 kmยฒ, making it the 5th largest country here - about 9.3 times the size of Egypt.
Population density is about 35 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Washington, D.C., at 38.90ยฐ N, 77.01ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 4,338,000.
Shares land borders with 2 countries: Canada and Mexico.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 29 time zones, from America/Adak to Pacific/Honolulu.
The currency is the United States dollar (USD, symbol $).
The official language is English.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
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Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
New York
New York
40.7519ยฐ N, 73.9820ยฐ W
19.04M
2
Los Angeles
California
33.9919ยฐ N, 118.1819ยฐ W
12.5M
3
Chicago
Illinois
41.8319ยฐ N, 87.7520ยฐ W
8.99M
4
Miami
Florida
25.7896ยฐ N, 80.2261ยฐ W
5.59M
5
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
40.0019ยฐ N, 75.1719ยฐ W
5.49M
6
Dallas
Texas
32.8220ยฐ N, 96.8420ยฐ W
4.8M
7
Atlanta
Georgia
33.8320ยฐ N, 84.4019ยฐ W
4.51M
8
Boston
Massachusetts
42.3319ยฐ N, 71.0720ยฐ W
4.47M
9
Houston
Texas
29.8219ยฐ N, 95.3419ยฐ W
4.46M
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Washington, D.C.
District of Columbia
38.9015ยฐ N, 77.0114ยฐ W
4.34M
๐ Peaks
Denali
6,190 m
Mauna Kea
4,207 m
Mount Rainier
4,392 m
๐งญ Worth the trip
Grand Canyon
Nature
A 446 km gash cut by the Colorado River, exposing nearly two billion years of rock in its walls.
Antelope Canyon
Nature
A slot canyon scoured by flash floods, where midday light drops through the crack in solid shafts.
New York City
City
Around 800 languages are spoken here, making it the most linguistically dense city ever recorded.
Route 66
Adventure
Chicago to Santa Monica, 3,940 km of the Mother Road, decommissioned in 1985 but never really closed.
Land neighbours
2 countries share a border with United States of America.