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** United States of America **

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total: 9,826,675 sq km || 65 years and over: 13.1% (male 17,745,363/female 23,377,542) (2011 est.) || male: 75.92 years female: 80.93 years (2011 est.) || male: 99% female: 99% (2003 est.) || abbreviation: US or USA || managerial, professional, and technical: 37.3% sales and office: 24.2% other services: 17.6% //note:// figures exclude the unemployed (2009) ||
 * Location || North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico ||
 * Geographic coordinates || 38 00 N, 97 00 W ||
 * Continent || North America ||
 * Area || land: 9,161,966 sq km water: 664,709 sq km
 * Area Comparison || about half the size of Russia; about three-tenths the size of Africa; about half the size of South America (or slightly larger than Brazil); slightly larger than China; more than twice the size of the European Union ||
 * Border Countries || Canada 8,893 km (including 2,477 km with Alaska), Mexico 3,141 km ||
 * 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, rare earth elements, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber ||
 * Natural Hazards || tsunamis; volcanoes; earthquake activity around Pacific Basin; hurricanes along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts; tornadoes in the Midwest and Southeast; mud slides in California; forest fires in the west; flooding; permafrost in northern Alaska, a major impediment to development ||
 * People ||  ||
 * Total Population || 313,232,044 (July 2011 est. ||
 * Age Structure || 0-14 years: 20.1% (male 32,107,900/female 30,781,823) 15-64 years: 66.8% (male 104,411,352/female 104,808,064)
 * **Life Expectancy** || total population: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: bottom;">78.37
 * Nationality || noun: <span class="category_data">American(s) adjective: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">American ||
 * Religions || Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4% (2007 est.) ||
 * Languages || English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census) //note:// <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">Hawaiian is an official language in the state of Hawaii ||
 * Literacy || definition: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: bottom;">age 15 and over can read and write total population: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">99%
 * Goverment ||  ||
 * Country name || conventional long form: <span class="category_data">United States of America conventional short form: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">United States
 * Goverment Type || Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition ||
 * Chief of state/Head of Goverment || <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: bottom;">President Barack H. OBAMA (since 20 January 2009) ||
 * Capital || <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: bottom;">Washington, DC ||
 * Economy || The US has the largest and most technologically powerful economy in the world, with a per capita GDP of $47,200. In this market-oriented economy, private individuals and business firms make most of the decisions, and the federal and state governments buy needed goods and services predominantly in the private marketplace. US business firms enjoy greater flexibility than their counterparts in Western Europe and Japan in decisions to expand capital plant, to lay off surplus workers, and to develop new products. At the same time, they face higher barriers to enter their rivals' home markets than foreign firms face entering US markets. ||
 * Labor Force by Occupation || farming, forestry, and fishing: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: bottom;">0.7% manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">20.3%
 * Agriculture || wheat, corn, other grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton; beef, pork, poultry, dairy products; fish; forest products ||
 * Industry || highly diversified, world leading, high-technology innovator, second largest industrial output in world; petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining ||
 * Exported 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% ||
 * Imported Commodities || $2.314 trillion (2011 est.) ||
 * Currency || <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">data cover only what the United States Treasury denotes as "Debt Held by the Public," which includes all debt instruments issued by the Treasury that are owned by non-US Government entities; the data include Treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data exclude debt issued by individual US states, as well as intra-governmental debt; intra-governmental debt consists of Treasury borrowings from surpluses in the trusts for Federal Social Security-dollar bills ||

2,438 to 3,047 m: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">235 1,524 to 2,437 m: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">1,479 914 to 1,523 m: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">2,316 under 914 m: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">975 (2010) || paved: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">4,374,784 km (includes 75,238 km of expressways) unpaved: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">2,131,420 km (2008) ||
 * Communication ||  ||
 * Number of Land Line Phones || 151 million (2010) country comparison to the world: <span class="category_data">[States&countryCode=us&regionCode=noa&rank=2#us|2] ||
 * Number of Cell Phones || 279 million (2010) country comparison to the world: <span class="category_data">[States&countryCode=us&regionCode=noa&rank=3#us|3] ||
 * Transportation ||  ||
 * Airports || 15,079 (2010) country comparison to the world: <span class="category_data">[States&countryCode=us&regionCode=noa&rank=1#us|1] ||
 * Paved Airports || total: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: bottom;">5,194 over 3,047 m: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: top;">189
 * roadways || total: <span class="category_data" style="vertical-align: bottom;">6,506,204 km country comparison to the world: <span class="category_data">[States&countryCode=us&regionCode=noa&rank=1#us|1]
 * Roadways compard to the world || country comparison to the world: <span class="category_data">[States&countryCode=us&regionCode=noa&rank=1#us|1] ||


 * Miscellaneous Information ||  ||
 * Broadcast media || 4 major terrestrial television networks with affiliate stations throughout the country, plus cable and satellite networks, independent stations, and a limited public broadcasting sector that is largely supported by private grants; overall, thousands of TV stations broadcasting; multiple national radio networks with large numbers of affiliate stations; while most stations are commercial, National Public Radio (NPR) has a network of some 600 member stations; satellite radio available; overall, nearly 15,000 radio stations operating (2008) ||


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