Geographical Map Of The Us
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.
Geographical map of the us. All maps can be viewed and printed with adobe reader or comparable pdf viewing software. A common way of referring to regions in the united states is grouping them into 5 regions according to their geographic position on the continent. 329 256 465 2018 official language. This benefits non specialist map users as well as applications that need traditional maps.
The five great lakes are located in the north central portion of the country four of them forming part of the border with canada. Constitutional federal republic climate. United states of america capital. The united states s landscape is one of the most varied among those of the world s nations the east consists largely of rolling hills and temperate forests.
Limited gis functionality such as displaying ground coordinates is available with all maps and the. The southeast largely contains subtropical forests and mangrove especially in florida. National geographic has been publishing the best wall maps travel maps recreation maps and atlases for more than a century. Geographers who study regions may also find other physical or cultural similarities or differences between these areas.
These are general use maps at medium scales that present elevation contour lines hydrography geographic place names and a variety of cultural features. The northeast southwest west southeast and midwest. Us topo maps repackage geographic information system gis data in traditional map form. Found in the western hemisphere the country is bordered by the atlantic ocean in the east and the pacific ocean in the west as well as the gulf of mexico to the south.
Us map collections county cities physical elevation and river maps click on any state to view map collection. Map of the united states showing the 50 states the district of columbia and the 5 major u s. The appalachian mountains form a line of low mountains in the eastern u s. Us dollar usd form of government.
Explore more than 800 map titles below and get the maps you need. Current generation topographic maps are created from digital gis databases and are branded us topo historic maps originally published as paper documents in the period 1884 2006 are available as scanned images. Low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated. Us topo topographic maps are produced by the.
Geographical features the country covers an area of about 3 28 million sq. The most commonly spoken language is english currency. The map above shows the location of the united states within north america with mexico to the south and canada to the north.