Travel freely across the United States: America

Author: Huang Guoping
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: The United States, officially known as the United States of America, is located in the southern part of North America. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west, Canada to the north, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. If you open a map of the United States, you will find that the outline of its mainland is roughly an irregular quadrilateral. Its territory is primarily located in the central part of North America. The mainland extends 2,570 kilometers from north to south and is 4,500 kilometers wide from east to west. Adding the two overseas states—Alaska and Hawaii, which are far from the mainland—the total area is 9,372,614 square kilometers, ranking fourth in the world. Additionally, the United States still controls Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and other islands in the Pacific, such as Midway Island, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, Eastern Samoa, the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, and Guam, as well as some other small islands. Some of these areas are referred to as U.S. "leaseholds" or "trust territories," but in reality, these regions are all colonies of the United States.