AIM Field: Albany, New York (USA)
AIM Field: Albany, New York (USA)
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People
- Population: 275,562,673 (July 2000 est.)
- Population growth rate: 0.91% (2000 est.)
- Ethnic groups: White 83.5%, black 12.4%, Asian 3.3%, Amerindian 0.8% (1992) Note: a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent (especially of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin) living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group (white, black, Asian, etc.)
- Religions: Protestant 56%, Roman Catholic 28%, Jewish 2%, other 4%, none 10% (1989)
- Languages: English, Spanish (spoken by a sizable minority)
- Literacy: 97% of those ages 15+
Geography
- Location: North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico
- Area: 9,629,091 sq km
- Area (comparative): About one-half the size of Russia; about three-tenths the size of Africa; about one-half the size of South America (or slightly larger than Brazil); slightly larger than China; about two and one-half times the size of Western Europe
- 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
Government
- Conventional Long Name: United States of America
- Conventional Short Name: United States
- Capital: Washington, DC
- Government Type: Federal republic; strong democratic tradition
*Except where indicated, source is World Factbook.
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