Source: The World Factbook
| Area: | 9,631,418 sq km |
| Capital: | Washington D.C. |
| Geographic coordinates: | 38 00 N, 97 00 W |
| 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: | Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition |
| Currency: | US dollar (USD) |
| Literacy(%): | 97 |
| Languages: | English, Spanish (spoken by a sizable minority) |
| Ethnicity/race: | white, black, Asian, Amerindian and Alaska native, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander, other |
| Religions: | Protestant, Roman Catholic, Mormon, Jewish, Muslim, other, none |
| Industries: | leading industrial power in the world, highly diversified and technologically advanced; petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining |
| Natural resources: | coal, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber |