 Geography:
Area: 9,629,091 sq. km.
Ten largest rivers:
- Missouri : 2,540 miles
- Mississippi : 2,340 miles
- Yukon : 1,980 miles
- Rio Grande : 1,900 miles
- St. Lawrence: 1,900 miles
- Arkansas : 1,460 miles
- Colorado : 1,450 miles
- Atchafalaya : 1,420 miles
- Ohio : 1,310 miles
- Red: 1,290 miles
Deserts
- Chihuahuan - North Central Mexico and Southwestern United States ( Arizona , New Mexico , Texas ) - 175,000 sq. miles
- Great Basin-Western U.S. ( Idaho , Nevada , Oregon , and Utah ) – 158,000 sq. miles
- Sonoran - Southwestern U.S. ( Arizona , California ) and parts of Mexico ( Baja Peninsula , Sonora )
- Mojave - Southwestern U.S. ( Arizona , California , Nevada ) – 25,000 sq. miles
Lowest point: Death Valley , Calif. 282 ft . ( 86 m ) below sea level
Highest point: Mount McKinley , Alaska 20,320 ft . ( 6,198 m ) above sea level
Population
2001: 281.4million
Ten largest metropolitan areas (based on population):
- New York (21,199,865)
- Los Angeles (16,373,645)
- Chicago (9,157,540)
- Washington , DC (7,608,070)
- San Francisco (7,039,362)
- Philadelphia (6,188,463)
- Boston (5,819,100)
- Detroit (5,456,425)
- Dallas (5,221,801)
- Houston (4,669,571)
Race
- White: 75.1%
- Black or African-American: 12.3%
- Asian: 3.6%
- Latino or Hispanic (of any race): 12.5%
Religion
- Protestant: 56%
- Roman Catholic: 28%
- Jewish: 2%
- Other: 4%
- none: 10% (1989)
Health
Average life expectancy: 77.2 years (2001, all races, U.S. CDC)
Infant Mortality Rate: 6.63 per 1,000 live births ('99-01, all races, U.S. CDC)
Health Insurance Statistics
- 61.3% of population covered by employment based insurance
- 25.7% by government programs
- 15.2% uninsured
2001 National healthcare expenditure:
- $1.4 trillion, up 8.7% from 2000
- 13.3% of GDP, largest share of any industrialized country; compares to 10.6% in Germany and 9.3% in Canada and France
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