Map of United States

United States is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 38.0° N, 97.0° W. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Canada and Mexico — and also has its own coastline. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, United States is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

United States shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

United States covers about 9,525,067 km² (3,677,649 sq mi). That makes it the 4th-largest country in the world by area and the 2nd-largest in North America, larger by area than 21 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 340,110,988, the 3rd-largest in the world and the 1st-largest in North America, accounting for about 57% of the continent’s people. With that land area, United States has an average population density of about 36 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 1st by population and 2nd by area.

The seat of government is Washington, D.C., and the official currency is the United States dollar (USD, $), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes time zones UTC-12:00, UTC-11:00, UTC-10:00, UTC-09:00, UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC+10:00 and UTC+12:00.

United States carries the ISO country codes US and USA, dials on the international calling code +1 and uses the .us internet domain.

United States shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Mexico (capital Mexico City, about 130,575,786 people) and Canada (capital Ottawa, about 41,651,653 people).

By area, United States is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 1 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 38.0° N, 97.0° W and opens at zoom level 3, framing United States within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Washington, D.C.. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

United States lies about 4,218 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

United States spans 11 time zones, from UTC-12:00 to UTC+12:00, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the United States dollar (USD, $).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +1 and websites commonly use the .us internet domain.

In short, United States is a coastal country in North America, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Washington, D.C.. United States has a population of about 340,110,988 and covers around 9,525,067 km² (3,677,649 sq mi), ranking it 3rd in the world by population and 4th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for United States.

The flag of the United States of America is composed of thirteen equal horizontal bands of red alternating with white. A blue rectangle, bearing fifty small five-pointed white stars arranged in nine rows where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars, is superimposed in the canton.

The flag of United States is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.