Geography of the United States

The United States is the third or fourth biggest country in the world. Only Russia and Canada are bigger. If you do not count the area of the Great Lakes, China is also bigger. Its geography varies a lot. The area is about 3,717,000 square miles, or about 9,629,000 square kilometers. The highest point is Mount McKinley, Alaska and the lowest point is Death Valley, California.^[1]

• There are meadows and forests on the East Coast,
• The Appalachian Mountains in the east
• The Great Plains in the middle of the country,
• The Mississippi-Missouri river, in the middle
• The Rocky Mountains west of the plains
• Deserts and coastal areas west of the Rocky Mountains
• Forests in the Pacific Northwest
• Arctic regions of Alaska
• Volcanic islands in Hawaii, which is not geographically part of the Americas.

The geographic center is in Butte County, South Dakota. The geographic center of the 48 states is in Smith County, Kansas.^[2]

1. ↑ Briney, Amanda. "Geography of the United States of America". Archived from the original on 12 July 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
2. ↑ "Miscellaneous Data for the United States".