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  2. The population of the Mountain West is growing much faster than the population of the United States as a whole. For example, Nevada's population grew 32.3 percent from 2000 to 2009, which is more than three times as much as the United States as a whole (9.1 percent).
  3. Table 1. US GDP by Sector (2016 Data). Source: "The World Factbook," Central Intelligence Agency, www.cia.gov. These figures show that the US has shifted to a postindustrial service economy.The rise of the information age in the latter part of the twentieth century shifted the workforce into the information sector.By 2016, only about one percent of the US workforce was employed in ...
  4. Thus, the United States and Canada are discussed in the North America chapter while Mexico and Central America are considered alongside the chapter on South America. Figure 4.1: Map of North America, 1:36,000,000 scale (Derivative work from original by CIA World Factbook, Public Domain)
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    47 North America: Overview Physical Geography: The United States Landform Regions . There are three major alpine regions in the United States, each of them running roughly north-to-south. One consists of a pair of ranges near the Pacific Ocean. The Coast Ranges are a relatively low mountain range that run the length of the Pacific Coast.
    Author:Joel Quam, Scott CampbellPublished:2020
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    Between 1910 and 1925, more than 10 percent of African Americans made the journey north and even more followed. Examining a map of the distribution of African Americans today shows the Great Migration legacy, as blacks live in many parts of the United States, both in the South and in postindustrial cities of the north and the Midwest.
    Author:R. Adam Dastrup, Ma, GispPublished:2020
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    The realm of North America as a continent extends from the polar regions of the Arctic in northern Canada and Alaska all the way south through Mexico and the countries of Central America. Geographers usually study the continent by dividing it into two separate realms based on differences in physical and cultural geography. ... The United States ...
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    According to the US Department of Agriculture, "in 2018, the top 10 agricultural producing States in terms of cash receipts were (in descending order): California, Iowa, Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Indiana." Seven of these states are in the Midwest.
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    South of Boston, the low-lying states of New England was the center of colonial settlement in the region and were the birthplace of America's Industrial Revolution. Southern New England began as an agricultural and fishing colony, and as industry developed in the nineteenth century, the region attracted European immigrants from Ireland, Italy ...
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    This region, anchored by North America's largest metropolis, New York, is the economic heart of the United States and Canada and home to more than a third of each country's population. The megalopolis —the built-up area from Washington, DC, to Boston—is part of this region. The core region contains the Manufacturing/Rust Belt, which was ...
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    Defining North America is both simple and yet not quite meeting a consensus. North America is comprised by Canada and the United States. Both of these countries were British colonies with a touch of French influence. Both countries rank in the top five countries of the world by area, as each stretches from Pacific Ocean to Atlantic Ocean.
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