USA Country Data

Area: total: 9,826,630 sq km land: 9,161,923 sq km water: 664,707 sq km note: includes only the 50 states and District of Columbia
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
Terrain: 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
Natural resources: coal, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber
Population: 303,824,646 [July 2008 est.]
Age structure: 0-14 years: 20.1% [male 31,257,108/female 29,889,645] 15-64 years: 67.1% [male 101,825,901/female 102,161,823] 65 years and over: 12.7% [male 16,263,255/female 22,426,914] [2008 est.]
Nationality: noun: American[s] adjective: American
Ethnic groups: white 81.7%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.2% [2003 est.] note: a separate listing for Hispanic is not included because the US Census Bureau considers Hispanic to mean a person of Latin American descent [including persons of Cuban, Mexican, or Puerto Rican origin] living in the US who may be of any race or ethnic group [white, black, Asian, etc.]
Languages: English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% [2000 census] note: Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii
Capital: name: Washington, DC geographic coordinates: 38 53 N, 77 02 W time difference: UTC-5 [during Standard Time] daylight saving time: +1hr, begins second Sunday in March ends first Sunday in November note: the US is divided into six time zones
National holiday: Independence Day, 4 July [1776]
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 0.9% industry: 20.5% services: 78.5% [2007 est.]
Labor force: 153.1 million [includes unemployed] [2007 est.]
Budget: revenues: $2.568 trillion expenditures: $2.73 trillion [2007 est.]
Agriculture - products: wheat, corn, other grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton beef, pork, poultry, dairy products fish forest products
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
Exports: $1.149 trillion f.o.b. [2007 est.]
Exports - commodities: agricultural products [soybeans, fruit, corn] 9.2%, industrial supplies [organic chemicals] 26.8%, capital goods [transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment] 49.0%, consumer goods [automobiles, medicines] 15.0% [2003]
Exports - partners: Canada 22.2%, Mexico 12.9%, Japan 5.8%, China 5.3%, UK 4.4% [2006]
Imports: $1.965 trillion f.o.b. [2007 est.]
Imports - commodities: agricultural products 4.9%, industrial supplies 32.9% [crude oil 8.2%], capital goods 30.4% [computers, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicle parts, office machines, electric power machinery], consumer goods 31.8% [automobiles, clothing, medicines, furniture, toys] [2003]
Imports - partners: Canada 16%, China 15.9%, Mexico 10.4%, Japan 7.9%, Germany 4.8% [2006]
Currency (code): US dollar [USD]
Exchange rates: British pounds per US dollar: 0.4993 [2007], 0.5418 [2006], 0.5493 [2005], 0.5462 [2004], 0.6125 [2003] Canadian dollars per US dollar: 1.0724 [2007], 1.1334 [2006], 1.2118 [2005], 1.3010 [2004], 1.4011 [2003] Japanese yen per US dollar: 117.99 [2007], 116.18 [2006] 110.22 [2005], 108.19 [2004], 115.93 [2003] euros per US dollar: 0.7345 [2007], 0.7964 [2006], 0.8041 [2005], 0.8054 [2004], 0.8860 [2003] Chinese yuan per US dollar: 7.61 [2007], 7.97 [2006], 8.1943 [2005], 8.2768 [2004], 8.2770 [2003]
Airports: 14,947 [2007]
Railways: total: 226,612 km standard gauge: 226,612 km 1.435-m gauge [2005]
Merchant marine: total: 446 ships [1000 GRT or over] 10,308,428 GRT/12,616,742 DWT by type: barge carrier 6, bulk carrier 64, cargo 82, carrier 2, chemical tanker 20, container 82, passenger 20, passenger/cargo 60, petroleum tanker 59, refrigerated cargo 4, roll on/roll off 26, specialized tanker 1, vehicle carrier 20 foreign-owned: 67 [Australia 2, Canada 4, Denmark 29, Germany 6, Malaysia 4, Netherlands 1, Norway 4, Singapore 11, Sweden 5, UK 1] registered in other countries: 785 [Antigua and Barbuda 8, Australia 5, Bahamas 162, Belize 3, Bermuda 23, Cambodia 6, Canada 3, Cayman Islands 41, Comoros 2, Cyprus 8, Ecuador 1, Greece 10, Honduras 1, Hong Kong 22, Ireland 2, Isle of Man 4, Italy 16, Liberia 103, South Korea 7, Luxembourg 3, Malta 11, Marshall Islands 129, Netherlands 13, Netherlands Antilles 1, Norway 18, Panama 115, Peru 1, Portugal 1, Puerto Rico 3, Russia 1, Singapore 17, Spain 9, St Vincent and The Grenadines 21, Sweden 1, Trinidad and Tobago 1, Tuvalu 1, UK 11, Vanuatu 1, unknown 4] [2007]
Ports and terminals: Corpus Christi, Duluth, Hampton Roads, Houston, Long Beach, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Tampa, Texas City
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