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United States: map and facts
The United States is in Northern America. It has about 342 million people (2025), the 3rd largest population. It covers 9,831,510 km², the 3rd largest by area. That is about 35 people per km². Its highest point is Denali, at 6,190 m. The longest river on its map is the Mississippi, 3,766 km from source to mouth.
Facts
- Population: 341,784,857 (2025, World Bank)
- Area: 9,831,510 km² (2024, World Bank). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 9,450,000 km².
- Capital: Washington, D.C.
- Highest point: Denali, 6,190 m (Wikidata)
- Forest: 33.8% of the land (2024, World Bank)
Rivers
The longest rivers on the map of the United States, with the length of each whole river (Wikidata):
- Mississippi: 3,766 km
- Missouri: 3,726 km
- Yukon: 3,190 km
- Rio Grande: 3,051 km
- Arkansas: 2,364 km
- Colorado: 2,334 km
- Columbia: 2,000 km
- Ohio: 1,579 km
- Brazos: 1,352 km
- St. Lawrence: 1,197 km
Also on the map: Tennessee, Sacramento, Stikine, Allegheny, Klamath, Madison, Holston, St. Clair, Niagara and Sprague.
Mountains and landscapes
Its highest peaks:
- Denali: 6,190 m (its highest point)
- Mount Blackburn: 4,996 m
- Mount Fairweather: 4,671 m
- Mount Whitney: 4,421 m
- Mount Elbert: 4,401 m
- Mount Rainier: 4,389 m
- Uncompahgre Peak: 4,361 m
- Longs Peak: 4,345 m
Mountain ranges: Rocky Mountains, Alaska Range, Appalachian Mountains, Brooks Range, Cascade Range, Coast Mountains, Chugach Mountains, Coast Ranges, Piedmont, Sierra Nevada, Columbia Mountains and Adirondack Mountains.
Plateaus, plains, deserts and other regions: Alaska, Great Plains, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, Aleutian Islands, Central Lowland, Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, Great Basin, Alaska Peninsula, Allegheny Plateau, Colorado Plateau and Columbia Plateau.
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): grassland 29.8%, farmland 14.3%, wooded savanna 13.5%, open shrubland 10.6%, deciduous broadleaf forest 8.2%, savanna 7.8%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 30.8%, plateaus 24.8%, hills 23.5%, mountains 19%, high mountains 1.9%.
Forests covered 33.8% of its land in 2024, up from 33% in 1990 (World Bank).
Minerals and fuels
- World #1 in oil among the countries EIA lists (2025)
- World #1 in natural gas among the countries EIA lists (2024)
- World #1 in gypsum among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #1 in silica sand among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in rare earths among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in salt among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #2 in sulfur among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in phosphate among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #3 in molybdenum among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in lead among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in mica among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #4 in zircon among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #5 in gold among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in coal among the countries EIA lists (2024)
- World #6 in copper among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #6 in zinc among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #8 in silver among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #10 in iron ore among the countries USGS lists (2025)
- World #10 in potash among the countries USGS lists (2025)
Neighbours
The United States shares land borders with Canada and Mexico on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
- The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 data release (doi:10.5066/P1WKQ63T). Terms
- Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (2026-09-03). Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
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