Mapquest Driving Directions in USA

Mapquest Driving Directions shows us that U.S. is the 3rd or 4th largest country in the world, smaller or bigger than China, according to the dispute of the two lands between India and China if they are calculated into the territory of China. If just counting ground territory, U.S. will be the 3rd, smaller than Russia and China and larger than Canada (Canada is larger than America comparing to the whole area but most of the North territory is ice, but ground).
U.S. Territory stretches from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean, from Canada to Mexio and the Gulf of Mexico. Alaska is the largest state, borders Pacific and Arctic Ocean and is seperated from continental by Canada. Hawaii includes a range of small islands in Pacific Ocean, South West of North America. Puerto Rico is the largest ocean state of USA, North East of Caribbe. Excluding Guam and the western most part of Alaska, most of USA is in Western Hemisphere
Via Mapquest Driving Directions, from above, next inland to coastal plain close to the Atlantic are deciduous forests and loose rolling hills of the Piedmont. Appalachian Mountains seperates eastern coastal plain from Great Lakes and Midwest prairies. . Mississippi-Missouri River is the fourth longest river system in the world flows oriented north-south through the middle of America.
Fertile and flat grasslands of the Great Plains stretches to the west. Western edge of Rockies of the Great Plains stretches from north to south, across the continent and reach higher 14,000 ft (4300 m) in Colorado. On the west of the Rocky Mountains, most areas are deserts like Mojave Desert and Great Basin which are rocky. SierraNevada range runs parallel to the Rockies, relatively near the Pacific coast. At 20,320 feet (6,194 meters), Alaska’s Mount McKinley is the highest peak of the United States. Active volcanoes are commonly found in the Alexander Archipelago and the Aleutian Islands.
The entire Hawaii state is formed from tropical volcanic islands. Super volcano under Yellowstone National Park in the Rockies is one of the largest remain volcano of the continent.
Mapquest Driving Directions also shows us that as the United States is larage and has large areas of many types, it gets almost all types of weather. The climate is mild in most areas, tropical in Hawaii and southern Florida, polar climate in Alaska, semi-arid in the west of Great Plains 100 degrees longitude, desert climate inthe South-west, Mediterranean climate in coastal California, and arid in the Great Basin.
Harsh weather is rare-states bordering the Gulf of Mexico usually face to the most storms and tornadoes of the world occur in the continental United States, mainly in the Midwest.