United States

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This page was generated on 13 September 2026 at 20:22 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.

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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.

Locator map of United States. United States is filled; surrounding countries are drawn in a dimmer tone and nothing is hidden behind them. No contested area from this source overlaps it. 331 parts of it are too small to draw at this scale and are not shown. View spans 161.5°E to 56.0°W and 14.2°N to 76.1°N. Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m.

United States is filled. The 25 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.

Nothing is hatched because no disputed area in this source overlaps United States. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

331 parts of United States in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.

This frame is wide because the source attributes territory to United States across about 142° of longitude. Nothing has been cropped to make the country look compact.

Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 45.2°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 161.5°E–56.0°W, 14.2°N–76.1°N.

Disputed areas

none listedNo disputed area in this source overlaps United States. That is not a finding that none exists — the source says plainly that its list is not exhaustive.

  1. News sources

    29 sources from United Statesin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.

    • NASA
    • SEC Press
    • US CDC
    • US EIA Today in Energy
    • US Federal Register
    • US Federal Reserve
    • US State Dept
    • USGS Significant Quakes
    • Washington Post (National)
    • ABC News (US)
    • CBS News
    • CNBC Top News
    • Fox News
    • MarketWatch
    • NBC News
    • NPR News
    • NYT US
    • NYT World
    • PBS NewsHour
    • Politico
    • The Hill
    • Ars Technica
    • BleepingComputer
    • MIT Technology Review
    • TechCrunch
    • The Verge
    • Wired
    • Yahoo Finance
    • Hacker News

    sources not yet assessed · state-affiliated source present · official data feed present

  2. Official alerts

    An official alerting source is connected for United States: NWS (NOAA) + FEMA IPAWS.

    This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.

  3. National legislature

    United States Congress ↗

    Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable

  4. Local time

    29 time zones.

    How many distinct clocks that is depends on the date. The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.

  5. Conditions at the capital

    Right now in Washington, D.C.

    31°C / 88°FMainly clearwind 5 km/h / 3 mph

    Checked 7 minutes ago

    Conditions at the capital, not across the country.

    Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

    Washington, D.C., 2026-09-13Sunrise 6:47 AM · sunset 7:19 PM12h 32m of daylightWaxing crescent, 4% lit

  6. At a glance

    ISO code
    USAcited
    Driving side
    rightcited
    Mains voltage
    120 Vuncited
    Capital
    Washington, D.C.uncited
    Official languages
    Hawaiian, Spanishuncited
    Plug types
    Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type B (NEMA 5-15)cited · letters are the IEC classification
    Official website
    No source assessed yet

  7. Population and economy

    Population

    Population of United States: the UN's 2025 estimate is 341,784,857 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 3.4 more a minute. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.

    Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.

    Where this number comes from
    Base figure
    341,784,857 people
    For the year
    2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
    Compared with
    340,003,797 people in 2024
    Rate applied
    about 3.4 more a minute (1,782,243 a year)
    How that rate was found
    The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
    Carried forward
    0 days beyond the base figure's date
    Source
    UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
    The source's own definition
    The values shown are midyear estimates.

    THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.

    Population
    341,784,8572025
    GDP
    30,769,700,000,0002025
    GDP per capita
    90,0272025
    Life expectancy at birth
    78.9 years2024
    Exports
    11.0%2024
    Imports
    14.0%2024

    Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source

  8. In this country's own words

    A motto IS recorded for this country, but not in any of its official languages. Aletheia does not quote a country in a language it does not use officially — the risk is quoting a mis-tagged entry as a nation's own words. That is our rule declining it, not the source failing to record one.

    Also recorded in English.

  9. World Heritage Sites

    28 World Heritage Sitesshow all
    1. Mesa Verde National Park · inscribed 1978
    2. Yellowstone National Park · inscribed 1978
    3. Kluane / Wrangell – St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek · inscribed 1979 · shared with Canada
    4. Grand Canyon National Park · inscribed 1979
    5. Everglades National Park · inscribed 1979
    6. Independence Hall · inscribed 1979
    7. Redwood National and State Parks · inscribed 1980
    8. Mammoth Cave National Park · inscribed 1981
    9. Olympic National Park · inscribed 1981
    10. Cahokia · inscribed 1982
    11. Great Smoky Mountains National Park · inscribed 1983
    12. La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site · inscribed 1983
    13. Liberty Island · inscribed 1984
    14. Yosemite National Park · inscribed 1984
    15. Chaco Culture World Heritage Site · inscribed 1987
    16. Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park · inscribed 1987
    17. Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville · inscribed 1987
    18. Taos Pueblo · inscribed 1992
    19. Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park · inscribed 1995 · shared with Canada
    20. Carlsbad Caverns National Park · inscribed 1995
    21. Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument · inscribed 2010
    22. El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro · inscribed 2010 · shared with Mexico
    23. Poverty Point · inscribed 2014
    24. San Antonio Missions · inscribed 2015
    25. Moravian Church Settlements · inscribed 2015 · shared with Germany, Denmark, United Kingdom
    26. The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright · inscribed 2019
    27. Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks · inscribed 2023
    28. Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge · inscribed 2026

    Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO

  10. Emergency numbers

    • 911

    Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.

    Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.

  11. Explore this country

  12. Regions

    First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates

  13. Currency

    USD

News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-07. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.

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