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A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from this map. This article is part of a series on.
In 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit upheld the District Court decision in Segovia v. United States, which ruled that former Illinois residents living in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands did not qualify to cast overseas ballots according to their last registered address on the U.S. mainland.
This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial and Native American capitals. Washington, D.C. has been the federal capital of the United States since 1800. Each U.S. state has its own capital city, as do many of its insular areas.
Rochester, New York is the ninth-largest city in the Northeast and the 112th-largest city in the United States. It had a population of 211,328 in 2020. The Rochester metro has a population of 1,090,135. Worcester, Massachusetts is the tenth-largest city in the Northeast and the 114th-largest city in the United States.
A topographic map of the United States The United States is the world's third-largest country by total area behind Russia and Canada. [d] [160] [161] The 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia occupy a combined area of 3,119,885 square miles (8,080,470 km 2 ).
The contiguous United States (officially the conterminous United States) consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia of the United States of America in central North America. [1] [2] The term excludes the only two non- contiguous states, which are Alaska and Hawaii (they are also the last two states to be admitted to ...
The cartography of the United States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the ...
The US has the 2nd largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 11,351,000 km 2 (4,383,000 sq mi). By total area ( water as well as land), the United States is either slightly larger or smaller than the People's Republic of China, making it the world's third or fourth-largest country.