Welcome from the United States
The United States is one of the most collective ethnically, geographically and climatically diverse nations in the world, where human populations occupy 50 states and five territories on two different continents surrounded by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Caribbean Sea and the Arctic Ocean. In addition to its five inhabited territories, the country also holds nine unpopulated islands in the Caribbean and Pacific. Its climate spans from the tropical regions of Puerto Rico to the south and Hawaii to the Pacific West, to the temperate region of the contiguous 48 states in North America and the Arctic climes of Alaska.
Today’s United States mainland was originally inhabited by the Paleo-Indians thousands of years before the first Europeans began to arrive in the 15th century when the country was first put on the global map. In just over 500 years since then, cultural interests from all over the world merged together to build a working nation, supported by its vast resources and rich, diverse geography and climates to create the country it is today.
The essence of the United States stems from the heart of this immigration melting pot and the cultural heart and heritage of its indigenous people, combining different wisdoms, technologies, ingenuities, and the desire to create new and better lives for everyone.
With over 4% of the global population inhabiting the world’s third largest country by surface, the United States ranks only #185 in terms of its average population density of about 88 people per square mile. This is due to its vast open spaces and relatively low population growth. Yet, with all its vast resources, diffuse environments, technological and production capabilities, and diversified global cultures, the United States has had to overcome myriad ecological challenges as well as face new ones. Just as this country was built by a remarkable blend of the world’s copious, differentiated cultures, its future will be navigated by an even more diverse population.
This platform brings you into to the richness and ecological essence of the true United States of America, the collaborative heartbeat of a diversified world culture seeking an efficient path toward sustainable living and a more unified planet. This is the beginning of the United States cultural hub on Ecology Prime™. This is The United States of America….
The United States is Comprised of:
- Forty-eight contiguous states (plus the District of Columbia) located between Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to the south, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Canada to the north.
- The detached states of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean and Alaska in the Arctic northwest.
- Five inhabited territories of the Free Associated State (Commonwealth) of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and the Pacific-based territories of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.
- Nine uninhabited territories of Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Atoll, Navassa Island, Palmyra Atoll and Wake Island, all of which are in the Pacific Ocean, except Navassa which is in the Caribbean Sea.