Climate | We have 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 |
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Revenue from forest resources | 0.04% of GDP (2018 est.) |
Revenue from coal | 0.2% of GDP (2018 est.) |
Waste and recycling | Municipal solid waste generated annually: 258 million tons (2015 est.) |
Total renewable water resources | 3.07 trillion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
Major rivers (by length in km) | Missouri - 3,768 km; Mississippi - 3,544 km; Yukon river mouth (shared with Canada [s]) - 3,190 km; Saint Lawrence (shared with Canada) - 3,058 km; Rio Grande river source ( mouth shared with Mexico) - 3,057 km; Colorado river source (shared with Mexico [m]) - 2,333 km; Arkansas - 2,348 km; Columbia river mouth (shared with Canada [s]) - 2,250 km; Red - 2,188 km; Ohio - 2,102 km; Snake - 1,670 km |
Total water withdrawal | |
Municipal | 58.39 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
Industrial | 209.7 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
Agricultural | 176.2 billion cubic meters (2020 est.) |
Air pollutants | |
Particulate matter emissions | 7.18 micrograms per cubic meter (2019 est.) |
Carbon dioxide emissions | 5,006.3 megatons (2016 est.) |
Methane emissions | 685.74 megatons (2020 est.) |
Land Use | |
Agricultural land | 44.5% (2018 est.) |
Agricultural land: arable land | arable land: 16.8% (2018 est.) |
Agricultural land: permanent crops | permanent crops: 0.3% (2018 est.) |
Agricultural land: permanent pasture | permanent pasture: 27.4% (2018 est.) |
Forest | 33.3% (2018 est.) |
Other | 22.2% (2018 est.) |
Urbanization | |
Urban population | 83.3% of total population (2023) |
Rate of urbanization | 0.96% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.) |
Major urban areas (Pop) | 18.937 million New York-Newark, 12.534 million Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, 8.937 million Chicago, 6.707 million Houston, 6.574 million Dallas-Fort Worth, 5.490 million WASHINGTON, D.C. (capital) (2023). |
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