Capital City: Washington, DC

Population: 318,892,103 (July 2014 est)

Currency: US Dollar (USD)

Land Area: 9,826,675 sq km. World’s third-largest country by size (after Russia and Canada) and by population (after China and India); Mt. McKinley is highest point in North America and Death Valley the lowest point on the continent

Dominant Religions: Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4% (2007 est)

Land Boundaries: Canada 8,893 km (including 2,477 km with Alaska), Mexico 3,141 km

Location: North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico

Climate: 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

Terrain: Vast central plain, mountains in west, hills and low mountains in east; rugged mountains and broad river valleys in Alaska; rugged, volcanic topography in Hawaii

Visa: The United States has exceptionally onerous and complicated visa requirements. Travellers have been refused entry for many reasons, often trivial.

There is no airside transit without US entry between international flights. All travellers must disembark and proceed through immigration and customs inspection to enter the United States, even if you’re only staying for the two to four hours required to transit between flights

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