Atlas of the United States

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United States

	United States of America Estados Unidos de América

English	United States - United States of America The United States of America, also referred to in short form as the United States, the USA, and colloquially as America, is a country in North America that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and shares land borders with ► Canada (including ► Quebec) and ► Mexico. To the west of Alaska lies ► Russia, to the (south) west of Florida ► Cuba, the ► Bahamas and ► Bermuda are located. The United States is a federal constitutional republic, with its capital in Washington, D.C. It consists of fifty individual states and a number of territories and other federally administered areas. At over 3.7 million square miles (over 9.6 million km²), the United States is the third largest country by total area. It is the world's third most populous nation, with over 300 million people. Asssociated commonwealths are the ► Northern Mariana Islands and ► Puerto Rico, other organized unincorporated territories are ► Guam and the ► United States Virgin Islands. The unorganized unincorpated territory with self-government is ► American Samoa. The unincorporated unorganized territories are ► Baker Island, ► Howland Island, ► Jarvis Island, ► Johnston Atoll, ► Kingman Reef, ► Midway Atoll, ► Navassa Island, ► Wake Island and the incorporated unorganized territory is ► Palmyra Atoll. The United States have the ► Guantanamo Bay Naval base on ► Cuba.
Español	Estados Unidos de América Los Estados Unidos de América es un país de América del Norte conformado por una federación de 50 estados y un distrito federal. También tiene varios territorios dependientes ubicados en Antillas y Oceanía. Su forma de gobierno es la de una república presidencialista y federal. Cuarenta y ocho de los estados están en la región entre Canadá y México. A estos estados se les llama, más o menos formalmente, los Estados Unidos continentales o contiguos y en ocasiones los 48 de abajo. Alaska está en la zona noroeste de América del Norte, separada de los otros estados por el territorio canadiense de Columbia Británica. El archipiélago de Hawaii, el estado número 50, se ubica en el Océano Pacífico. La capital federal, Washington, se sitúa en el Distrito de Columbia, entre los estados de Maryland al norte y Virginia al sur.
Other main minority languages	French: États-Unis d'Amérique - Les États-Unis d'Amérique sont une fédération constituée de cinquante États (représentés par les cinquante étoiles du drapeau) situés en Amérique du Nord et dans l'océan Pacifique. Quarante-huit de ces cinquante États sont situés au sud du Canada et au nord du Mexique. L'Alaska est située à l'ouest du Canada. Hawaii est dans l'océan Pacifique, à 3 900 km au sud-ouest de la Californie. Washington, D.C., est la capitale fédérale du pays, avec un statut spécial (ce n'est pas un État et le district n'est pas non plus membre d'un État fédéré). D'autres territoires ont des statuts spécifiques, notamment des États (anciennes colonies) qui ne sont pas membres de droit de la fédération, mais qui sont en pratique intégrés : les Samoa américaines, Guam, les îles Mariannes du Nord, Porto Rico et les îles Vierges américaines. Chinese: 美利堅合眾國 - 美利堅合眾國通稱美国，旧称花旗国，是位於北美洲的聯邦共和制國家，也是世界上最為悠久的共和立憲制國家。美国本土东濒大西洋，西临太平洋，北靠加拿大，南接墨西哥及墨西哥湾。首都為华盛顿哥伦比亚特区。 German: Verenigte Staaten von Amerika - Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika sind eine Bundesrepublik in Nordamerika. Das Land nimmt rund die Hälfte der Landmasse des Kontinents ein und ist der flächenmäßig drittgrößte Staat der Erde. Tagalog: Mga Nagkakaisang Estado ng Amerika - Ang Mga Nagkakaisang Estado ng Amerika na mas kilala sa pangalang Estados Unidos ay isang republikang pederal na mayroong limampung estado. Karaniwang tinatawag na “Amerikano” ang mga mamamayan nito. Hawaiian: ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻia

Short name	United States
Official name	United States of America
Status	Independent country since 1776 (recognized 1783)
Location	North America
Capital	Washington DC
Population	301,348,000 inhabitants
Area	9,631,420 km²
Major languages	English (de facto official), Spanish and other minority languages
Major religions	Protestantism, Roman Catholicism
More information	United States, Geography of the United States, History of the United States and Politics of the United States
More images	United States - United States (Category).

Maps

General maps

Map of the United States
Mapa político de los Estados Unidos

Map of the United States
Mapa de los Estados Unidos

Topological map of the United States
Mapa topológico de los Estados Unidos

Administrative divisions of the United States
Mapa de los Estados Unidos, con los nombres de los estados.

States of the US
Los estados de los EEUU

US states and their capitals

States

Census Regions and Divisions of United States

Elevation map

States

Alabama	Alaska	Arizona	Arkansas
California	Colorado	Connecticut	Delaware
Florida	Georgia	Hawaii	Idaho
Illinois	Indiana	Iowa	Kansas
Kentucky	Louisiana	Maine	Maryland
Massachusetts	Michigan	Minnesota	Mississippi
Missouri	Montana	Nebraska	Nevada
New Hampshire	New Jersey	New Mexico	New York
North Carolina	North Dakota	Ohio	Oklahoma
Oregon	Pennsylvania	Rhode Island	South Carolina
South Dakota	Tennessee	Texas	Utah
Vermont	Virginia	Washington	West Virginia
Wisconsin	Wyoming

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day the United States, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day the United States.

Colonial period

The 1606 grants by James I to the London and Plymouth companies.

New Sweden 1650

New Netherland and New Sweden 1650

New Netherland

New England Confederation 1643

Colonial North America 1689-1783

The Seven Years' War in North America

Pontiac's War

Thirteen Colonies

Thirteen Colonies in 1775

Spanish colonies in North America (New Spain)

Territorial development of the United States

USA territorial growth 1810-1920 (This map is animated.)

1789: United States at independence	1789: Formation of the Northwest Ordinance or Territory	United States 1790-1791-03.png 1790: Formation of the Southwest Territory	1791: Admission of the Vermont Republic
United States 1791-09-1792.png 1791: Formation of the District of Columbia	United States 1792-1795.png 1792: Admission of Kentucky	1795: Pinckney's Treaty	1796: Admission of Tennessee.
1798: Formation of the Mississippi Territory	1800: Formation of the Indiana Territory	1800: Border change between Connecticut and the Northwest Territory	\|1802: Border change between Georgia (U.S. state) and the federal government
1803: Admission of Ohio	1803: Louisiana Purchase	1803: Border change between Georgia (U.S. state) and the Mississippi Territory	1804: Split of the Louisiana Purchase into the District of Louisiana and the Orleans Territory
1805: Formation of the Michigan Territory	1805: Reorganization of the District of Louisiana into the Louisiana Territory	United States 1809-1810.png 1809: Formation of the Illinois Territory	United States 1810-1812-04.png 1810: Annexation of parts of West Florida
1812: Admission of Louisiana	1812: Border changes of the Mississippi Territory	1812: Renaming of Louisiana Territory into Missouri Territory	1812: Reorganization of parts of the Missouri Territory
1817: Admission of Indiana	1817: Formation of Alabama Territory	1817: Admission of Mississippi	1818: Creation of Oregon Country as a shared land between the United States and United Kingdom
1818: Admission of Illinois and formation of Michigan Territory	1819: Formation of Arkansaw Territory	1819: Admission of Alabama	1820: Admission of Maine
1821: New borders with New Spain, acquisition of Spanish Florida	1822: Admission of Missouri	1822: Formation of Florida Territory	1824: Border change of Arkansas Territory
1828: Border change of Arkansas Territory	1834: Growth of Michigan Territory	1836: Independence of the Republic of Texas	1836:Admission of Arkansas
1836: Formation of the Wisconsin Territory	1837: Admission of Michigan	1837: Border change of Missouri	1838: Formation of Iowa Territory
1842: Webster-Ashburton Treaty with the United Kingdom	1845: Admission of Florida	1845: Annexation and admission of Texas	1846: Oregon Treaty with the United Kingdom
1846: Admission of Iowa	1848: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, border change with Mexico	1848: Admission of Wisconsin	1848: Formation of the Oregon Territory
1849: Formation of the Minnesota Territory	1850: Annexation of parts of Mexico (Mexican Cession), admission of California, formation of Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory	1853: Formation of the Washington Territory	1853: The Gadsden Purchase
1854: Formation of Kansas Territory, Nebraska Territory and the unorganized Indian Territory	1858: Admission of Minnesota	1859: Admission of Oregon	1860: Texas claims Greer County, Texas
1861: Accession of Kansas	1861: Secession of the Confederate States of America	1861: Formation of Colorado Territory	1861: Formation of Dakota Territory
1861: Formation of the Arizona Territory (CSA)	1862: Border changes of Nevada Territory	1863: Formation of the Arizona Territory	1863: Formation of the Idaho Territory
1863: Admission of West Virginia, a secession of the CSA State of Virginia	1864: Formation of the Montana Territory	1864: Admission of Nevada	1865: Surrender of the Confederate States of America at the Battle of Appomattox (re-admission takes several years)
1866: Border change of Nevada	1867: Border change of Nevada	1867: Admission of Nebraska	1867: Alaska purchase from Russia, named Department of Alaska
1868: Formation of the Wyoming Territory	1876: Admission of Colorado	1884: Redesignation of Alaska into the District of Alaska	1889: Admission of North Dakota and South Dakota
1889: Admission of Montana Territory	1889: Admission of Washington	1890: Formation of Oklahoma Territory	1890: Admission of Idaho Territory
1890: Admission of Wyoming	1896: Admission of Utah	1896: Border change of Oklahoma Territory	1898: Annexation of the Republic of Hawaii
1907: Admission of Oklahoma	1912: Admission of New Mexico	1912: Admission of Arizona	1912: Reorganization of District of Alaska as Alaska Territory
1959: Admission of Alaska	1959: Admission of Hawaii

Territorial Acquisitions of the United States

USA territorial acquisitions map

From independence to civil war

Tecumseh War 1811

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State cessions 1782-1802

Sabine Free State 1808-1819

Oregon country 1818-1846

Oregon border dispute

Adams-Onís Treaty

Civil War

Animated map of secession, Civil War and re-admission

Status of the states 1861:

States that seceded before April 15, 1861

States that seceded after April 15, 1861

Union states that permitted slavery

Union states that forbade slavery

Territories

Map of the United States in 1864, showing the division during the Civil War.

Union states, including those admitted during the war

Union states that permitted slavery

Confederate States

Territories

State and territory boundaries, 1864-5:

Union (American Civil War) states

Union territories

Union border states that permitted slavery

Kansas, which entered the Union as a free state after the Bleeding Kansas crisis

Confederate States of America

Confederate claimed and sometimes held territories

Battles of the Civil War

Confederate States of America 1861-1865

Indian reservations

After the Civil War

Overseas territories

US States by date of statehood

Old maps

This section holds copies of original general maps older than 70 years of this entry.

Il designo del discoperto della Nova Franza by Paolo Forlani, ca. 1566

Map of New France by Samuel de Champlain, 1612

New Netherland 1614

New Netherland and New England 1642

New Netherland 1685

Population maps

Population density

States by population

States by population density

Cities

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Cities

Ethnic and linguistic maps

Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans

Early Indian languages

Early Indian languages (Alaska)

Ancestry by country

Chinese Ancestry

Black density

Asian density

English as official language

English language spread in the United States

French language spread in the United States
Distribution de la langue française aux États-unis

Welsh language spread in the United States

Dutch language spread in the United States

German language spread in the United States

Swedish language spread in the United States
Svenska språkets spridning i USA

Spanish language spread in the United States

Russian language spread in the United States

Finnish language spread in the United States

Tagalog language spread in the United States

Chamorro language spread in the United States

Religion maps

Jewish population

Jewish congregations

Roman Catholic dioceses

Legal and political maps

Electoral map

Courts of Appeals and District courts

Death Penalty

Abortion legislation

Pre-Abortion counselling legislation

Abortion legislation, mandatory waiting period laws

Highest median household income

Median household income change

Counties with the lowest median household income in 2000

Counties with the lowest pro capita income in 2000

States without income tax

States without income tax on wages

Position of the trade unions

Minimum wage legislation

Sodomy laws

Cannabis laws

Various maps

State name etymologies

Time zones

Rivers and lakes in the US

Average precipitation

Federally protected marine areas (National Marine Sanctuaries)

Notes and references

General remarks:

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