USA Facts | Geography
1. The capital city of the USA is called . D.C. stands for District of Columbia. Washington D.C. has about 7.5 million .(Beware: Washington is also the name of an U.S. state in USA. The capital city of Washington State is .)Washington DC with the Capitol building, Jefferson Memorial and Lincoln Memorial.
2. The USA shares land borders with and with Mexico. The border shared with Canada is the longest international border in the world. It is 8,891 km/ 5,525 miles long. The other international border of the USA with Mexico is 3,145 km/ 1,954 miles long. The USA borders the along the East Coast and the Pacific Ocean along the West Coast.
3. The USA is the third largest country in the world. The USA are smaller than or Canada, but larger than China, if all territories as well as coastal and territorial waters are included.
4. The USA is the third most populous country in the world after and India. The USA is home to 332 million inhabitants. Almost 40% of all Americans live close in the East Coast states, while about 16% live along the West Coast states. 83% of the population lives in urban areas.
5. Largest city in the USA is New York with almost 8.4 million inhabitants is the USA's city.
Other large cities in the USA include:
• Los Angeles: 3.9 million inhabitants
• Chicago: 2.7 million inhabitants
• Brooklyn: 2.3 million inhabitants
• Houston: 2.3 million inhabitants
6. The most populous U.S. state is California with almost 40 million inhabitants. The least populous state is Wyoming with about 580,000 inhabitants.
7. The largest U.S. state by land area is Alaska. Alaska is a bit more than twice the size of Texas and four times the size of California. On a global scale, Alaska is roughly the size of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France combined!
The state is Rhode Island and about 1.5 times the size of Luxembourg.
