CAPITAL: Washington
AREA: 9,385,000 Km²
POPULATION: 318,900,000 inhabitants
CLIMATE: Most of the country experiences a temperate climate except the state of Hawaii, southern Florida and Alaska are located outside this zone.
LANGUAGE: English and Spanish
CURRENCY: 100 XPF = approximately 1.02 USD (exchange rate, March 2018)
PHONE CODE: +1
The United States is located between Canada in the North and Mexico in the South on the American continent. The northern border with Canada is 2500 kilometers from the southern border with Mexico. Alaska alone, between Canada and the Bering Strait, covers an area of 1,717,854 km².
The United States is a federation of fifty states. 48 of them are in North America between Canada in the North and Mexico in the South, and the other two are Alaska and Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. On the North American continent, the United States extends over a width of 4500 kilometers between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. In addition to the states mentioned, the USA has former dependent colonies of the federation such as the island of Guam, the American Virgin Islands, the American Samoa Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico. The highest point in the United States is Mount McKinley (Alaska) which culminates at 6,194 meters above sea level. The country also has some of the largest rivers on the planet such as the Mississippi (3,780 km long), the Missouri (3,726 km), the Colorado (2,317 km) and the Rio Bravo (3.