1400 United States From Space
24x36 inches, (91x61cm), Scale 1:2 000 000. (the lower 48 states) is based on NOAA satellite data-AVHRR data. At this scale all of the major land features can be seen: the salt flats outside Salt Lake City; the Missouri and Mississippi rivers flowing from the headwaters in Montana to the Gulf of Mexico; Death Valley; the Black Hills (where Mt. Rushmore is located), the Appalachian mountains; the Adirondacks, and many, many more notable points of geography. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. The conterminous United States may be divided into several regions: the New England states (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut), the Middle Atlantic states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia), the Southeastern states (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky), the states of the Midwest (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri), the Great Plains states (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas), the Mountain states (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah), the Southwestern states (Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona), and the states of the Far West (Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada). Alaska is the largest state in area and Rhode Island is the smallest . California has the largest population, while Wyoming has the fewest people.
