Capital: Washington, DC

Largest City: New York (8,103,700)

Highest Elevation: Mount McKinley 6,194 m (20321 ft)

Population: 293,027,571

Lowest Elevation: Death Valley -86 m (-282 ft)

Geography: vast central plain, mountains in west, hills and low mountains in east; rugged mountains and broad river valleys in Alaska; rugged, volcanic topography in Hawaii

Climate: mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, low winter temperatures in the northwest

Languages: English, Spanish (spoken by a sizable minority)

Area: 3,716,829 sq. mile / 9,629,091 sq. kil (One half the size of South America; slightly larger than China)

International Calling Code: 1

Tourism Website: N/A

Currency: Dollar

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