Have you ever wondered what the tree population and density of the United States looks like? This amazing map shows just that. Created by Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of Woods Hole Research ...

Earlier this week, I split up the United States into 50 regions of equal population. In that story, I pointed out that the population of Manhattan is g ...

The U.S. Coast Survey map calculated the number of slaves in each county in the United States in 1860. Library of Congress In September of 1861, the U.S. Coast Survey published a large map ...

Population density maps are always good fun. And this one showing US states is no exception. As picked up on Reddit (the original is on Wikipedia), this map shows what each state would look like ...

There's a birth every nine seconds in the United States and a death every 10. Here's how many people live in the U.S. and other population fast facts.

Using Census data, we've figured out that half of the United States population is clustered in just the 146 biggest counties out of over 3000. Here's the map, with said counties shaded in. Below ...

There were 2,621,514 goats in the United States as of 2012, the year of the most recent USDA Agricultural Census. If America's goats were their own state, its population would be larger than that ...

We'll admit it: We're suckers for ways to reimagine the political boundaries of the United States. Below, we have a four-decade-old attempt from California State University geography professor C ...

This map shows the racial and ethnic makeup of the entire United States, according to the 2020 census. Race and ethnicity across the nation By John Keefe, Daniel Wolfe and Sergio Hernandez , CNN ...

The United States population is projected to grow more slowly than previously anticipated over the next three decades, according to the Congressional Budget Office's latest forecast released in 2025.

Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Texas, and Arizona saw the fastest population growth in percentage terms of any American state between 1 July, 2000, and 1 July, 2023, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.