Country profile / US
United States
United States of America
Capital
Washington D.C.
Region
North America
ISO
US
Local time in United States
live · IANANew York
America/New_York
Detroit
America/Detroit
Louisville
America/Kentucky/Louisville
Monticello
America/Kentucky/Monticello
Showing 4 of 29 time zones. The full identifier list appears in the reference ledger below.
Reference ledger
A sense of scale
area percentileLarger than 98% of places in this atlas.
At 9,372,610 km², United States ranks 5 of 241 records by land area. This comparison uses the same bundled source for every profile, so the scale is internally consistent.
Land neighbors
2Field notes
2 notes“The United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million in 1867.”
02The U.S. flag has changed 27 times since 1777.
Use these identifiers accurately
The two-letter code US is the compact ISO identifier used in addresses, locale selectors, and many data feeds. The dialing prefix +1 belongs at the start of an international phone number. Time zone names such as America/New_York should be preferred over a fixed UTC offset because they carry daylight-saving rules.
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