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  1. <text id=93AC0141>
  2. <title>
  3. Territorial Expansion of the United States
  4. </title>
  5. <history>
  6. Compact ALMANAC--United States Statistics         
  7. Environment & Weather                                
  8. </history>
  9. <article>
  10. <source>Time Almanac</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. Territorial Expansion of the United States & Acquisitions of Other Areas
  13. </hdr>
  14. <body>
  15. <p>[One square mile=2.59 square kilometers]
  16. </p>
  17. <table>
  18. <tblhdr><cell>Accession<cell>Acquisition Date<cell type=i>Gross Area <nl>(land & water): <nl>Sq. mi.<cell type=i>Sq. km.
  19. <row><cell type=a>Total<cell type=a>(X)<cell type=i>3,623,434<cell type=i>9,384,694
  20. <row><cell>United States<cell>(X)<cell>3,618,770<cell>9,372,614
  21. <row><cell>Territory in 1790(1)<cell>(X)<cell>891,364<cell>2,308,633
  22. <row><cell>Louisiana Purchase<cell>1803<cell>831,321<cell>2,153,121
  23. <row><cell>Purchase of Florida<cell>1819<cell>69,866<cell>180,953
  24. <row><cell>Texas<cell>1845<cell>384,958<cell>997,041
  25. <row><cell>Oregon Territory<cell>1846<cell>283,439<cell>734,107
  26. <row><cell>Mexican Cession<cell>1848<cell>530,706<cell>1,374,529
  27. <row><cell>Gadsden Purchase<cell>1853<cell>29,640<cell>76,768
  28. <row><cell>Alaska<cell>1867<cell>591,004<cell>1,530,700
  29. <row><cell>Hawaii<cell>1898<cell>6,471<cell>16,760
  30. <row><cell>Other areas:<cell><cell><cell>
  31. <row><cell>Puerto Rico(2)<cell>1898<cell>3,515<cell>9,104
  32. <row><cell>Guam(3)<cell>1898<cell>209<cell>541
  33. <row><cell>American Samoa(4)<cell>1899<cell>77<cell>199
  34. <row><cell>US Virgin Islands<cell>1917<cell>132<cell>342
  35. <row><cell>Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the(5)<cell>1947<cell>533<cell>1,380
  36. <row><cell>North Mariana Islands(5)<cell>1947<cell>184<cell>477
  37. <row><cell>All other(6)<cell>(X)<cell>14<cell>36
  38. </table>
  39. <list style=hang>
  40. <item>X= Not applicable.
  41. <item>1. Includes that part of drainage basin of Red River of the North, south of 49th parallel, sometimes considered part of Louisiana Purchase.
  42. <item>2. Ceded by Spain in 1898, ratified in 1899, became Commonwealth of Puerto Rico by Act of Congress July 25, 1952.
  43. <item>3. Acquired 1898; ratified 1899.
  44. <item>4. Acquired 1899; ratified 1900.
  45. <item>5. Land area only.
  46. <item>6. Comprises the following islands (gross area in square miles): Midway, 2; Wake, 3; Palmyra, 4; Navassa, 2; Baker, Howland, and Jarvis combined area, 3; Johnston Atolls combined area, less than .5; and Kingman Reef, less than .5. Excludes Canton and Enderbury Islands combined area, 27 sq. mi. or 73 sq. km., (under jurisdiction of Kirbati since 1979); and Swan Islands, 1 sq. mi. (returned to Honduras in 1972).
  47. </list>
  48. <p>Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census.
  49. </p>
  50. </body>
  51. </article>
  52. </text>
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