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- The mainland is made up of 48 contiguous states, with Alaska to the northwest (connected to the mainland by British Columbia, Canada), and Hawaii 2,200 miles southwest in the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. also has 14 overseas territories in the Pacific and Caribbean – five of these are permanently inhabited, the largest of which is Puerto Rico.
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The U.S. is a big place, nearly 1.9 billion acres. Stacey Vanek Smith and Cardiff Garcia from NPR's daily economics podcast, The Indicator, look at how all that land is divvied up.
Almost 1.9 billion acres. Roughly 2.9 million square miles. That's how big the continental United States of America is, not including Alaska and Hawai'i. But how is all that land divided...
- Mapped: The Anatomy of Land Use in America
- The Components of U.S. Land Use
- Small But Mighty: U.S. Urban Areas
- Seeing Green: America’s Vast Forests
- Home Grown: Agriculture in The U.S.
- Future Land Use
The United States is not just an economic and political giant on the global stage—the country also has one of the largest land masses at its disposal. Altogether, the country spans 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km²)—making it the third largest country in the world. Even without factoring Alaska and Hawaii into the calculations, the contiguo...
As the U.S. prepares to add 100 millionmore people this century, the “2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal” provides a snapshot of U.S. land use (as of 2017), aimed at managing resources to support this future. According to this data, here is a snapshot of land use in the Lower 48 States: Let’s dive into the specifics of three types of lan...
It’s clear that even a little space goes a long way. Although urban areas take up only 2% of land, an overwhelming majority of Americans call cities their home. As of 2018, urbanites made up over 82% of the U.S. population. Where people go, productivity often follows. In 2018, it’s estimated that 31 county economies made up a whopping 32% of nation...
On the flipside, forests account for over a quarter of land in the U.S., divided almost evenly between deciduous and evergreen trees. Many protected national and state parks can also be found in and around forests. On the mainland, California and Oregon are the states with the most forested land—unfortunately, they have also been plagued by wildfir...
Last but not least, the final set of maps show where America grows its food. Agricultural, food, and related industries contributed $1.05 trillion(5.4%) to U.S. GDP in 2017. Wheat, corn, and soybeans are the major crops grown in the U.S.—and cotton also makes the cut as a profitable non-food crop. Much of these crops feed not only Americans, but ot...
The U.S. population is set to grow by 100 million more people over the coming decades, raising the pressure on limited U.S. land and natural resources. This pressure will be felt everywhere, from dense urban land to agricultural farmland. How the land gets utilized will shape the country’s future for years to come.
Jun 9, 2023 · In the United States today, roughly 60% of the land within our borders is owned by private individuals and corporations. Approximately 77 Million people in the United States own 1.3 Billion acres of private land, with 63% of those acres being farms and ranches, and the remainder being mostly forests.
Jan 23, 2021 · Here's the share countries make up of the Earth's surface. There are over 510 million km² of area on Earth, but less than 30% of it is land. We chart countries by share of Earth's surface.
Sep 13, 2024 · The U.S. land area covers nearly 2.26 billion acres. According to the latest update to ERS's Major Land Uses (MLU) series, grassland pasture and range uses accounted for the largest share of the Nation's land base in 2017, with land in forest uses (which includes grazed forest land) accounting for the next largest share.
This visualization lets you divide the US into 1,2,3,4,5,8 and 10 different segments with equal population and across different dimensions. The divisions are made using counties as the building blocks (of which there are 3143 in the US). There are numerous different ways to make the divisions.
