Learning geography of the United States can be fun. People live in America know the country is big, but exactly how big it is?
Located in North America, the United States is the third largest country in the world behind Russia and Canada by land mass. The current estimated population of America is 329,047,319 as of May 1, 2019, based on the United States Census Bureau. Which makes the United States also the third most populous country in the world.
The land area of the entire United States is approximately 3,800,000 miles. There are 50 states in the USA, 48 of them are contiguous states making up a huge landmass, which is about the size of Australia. Those states that are not non-contiguous states are Alaska, Hawaii and other territories.
The land area of Conterminous United States is 2,959,064.44 square miles, the greatest distance of the United States contiguous landmass is 2802 miles; the greatest north to south length is 1,650 miles.
The United States share international land borders with two nations: Canada and Mexico, the United States borders Canada to the north and Mexico in the south.
The biggest state in land area of the Contiguous United States is Texas (268,581 sq. miles), the smallest state is Rhode Island (1,545 sq. miles); The most populated state is California with a total population of 39,776,830 in 2019, the least populated state is Wyoming with 573,720 residents in 2019.
The United States of America was established in July 1776, the first state to join the union was Delaware, while Hawaii was the last to join the union and becoming the 50th state.
Above we have listed some fast facts about the United States and those are just basics, there are still many unknown facts for you to explore.
Here we have a little neighboring state QUIZ for you, Let’s see if you can answer all of them.