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| Land Boudaries Total United States : | 12,034 km . |
| Geographic Coordinates United States : | 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 . |
| Area Total United States : | 9,631,418 sq km . |
| Area Land United States : | 9,161,923 sq km . |
| Area Water United States : | 469,495 sq km . |
| Area Comparative United States : | 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; about two and a half times the size of Western Europe . |
| Coast Line United States : | 19,924 km . |
| Railways Total United States : | 228,464 km . |
| Highways Total United States : | 6,406,296 km . |
| Waterways United States : | 41,009 km (19,312 km used for commerce) (2004) . |
| Ports and Harbors United States : | Anchorage, Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Duluth, Hampton Roads, Honolulu, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Port Canaveral, Portland (Oregon), Prudhoe Bay, San Francisco, Savannah, Seattle, Tampa, Toledo . |