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Full Name: United States of America
Population: 293,027,571 (July 2004 est.)
People: white 77.1%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Amerindian and Alaska native 1.5%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.3%, other 4% (2000)
Language: English, Spanish (spoken by a sizable minority)
Religion: Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.)
Government: Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition
Capital: Washington D.C.
Independence: 4 July 1776 (from Great Britain) After a 7 year war.
Size: total: 9,631,418 sq km Comparative: 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
Topography: 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
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
GDP: purchasing power parity - $10.99 trillion (2004 est.)
GDP per capita: purchasing power parity - $37,800 (2004 est.)
Inflation: 2.3% (2004 est.)
Labor Force: 146.5 million (includes unemployed) (2004 est.)
Labor by occupation: farming, forestry, and fishing 2.4%, manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts 24.1%, managerial, professional, and technical 31%, sales and office 28.9%, other services 13.6%
note: figures exclude the unemployed (2001)
Unemployment: 6% (2004 est.)
Internet Users: 159 million (2002)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 1.4%
industry: 26.2%
services: 72.5% (2004 est.)
Trading Partners: (Export) Canada 23.4%, Mexico 13.5%, Japan 7.2%, UK 4.7%, Germany 4% (2003) (Import) Canada 17.4%, China 12.5%, Mexico 10.7%, Japan 9.3%, Germany 5.3% (2003)
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