Outline of the United States

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the United States: United States of America – federal republic located primarily in North America, and the world's third-largest country by both land and total area.

It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations.

With the Soviet Union's collapse and the subsequent end of the Cold War in 1991, the United States emerged as the world's sole superpower.

The geography of the United States varies across their immense area.

Order of succession applies only to within the cabinet; the vice president has always been first in the line of succession, and the Speaker of the House and the President pro tem of the Senate have at times been included.

An orthographic projection of the United States
An enlargeable map of the United States showing the population density in 2010
An enlargeable topographic map of the contiguous United States
An enlargeable satellite composite image of the contiguous United States . Lush temperate, subtropical, and tropical vegetation and low to moderately high mountains prevail throughout the humid east, and high mountains, plateaus, temperate and subtropical savannas , and hot dry deserts prevail in the west.
Map of the United States with state border lines. Alaska and Hawaii are shown at different scales, and that the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from this map.
Location of the insular areas of the United States:
The United States of America
Incorporated unorganized territory
Unincorporated organized territory
Unincorporated unorganized territory
Freely associated commonwealth
John Trumbull 's Declaration of Independence is usually incorrectly identified as a depiction of the signing of the Declaration of Independence , but it actually shows the drafting committee presenting its work to the Second Continental Congress .
A map of the territorial evolution of the United States
The United States Capitol
The White House
The United States Supreme Court building
The Pentagon
Headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency