Look at the jaw-dropping emptiness of America (2024)

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What is the most empty place in the United States? ›

The least-populated place in the United States is Alaska's Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area.

About 47 percent of the country is unoccupied. There are plenty of visualizations based on population data, but nothing quite like what designer Nik Freeman has created: a map of where no one lives.

The Empty Quarter – most of Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Colorado from Denver west, as well as the eastern portions of Oregon, California, Washington, all of Alberta and Northern Canada (including what is now Nunavut), northern Arizona, parts of New Mexico (mainly the area controlled by the Navajo ...

the U.S. the U.S. Source: United States census bureau. White Americans constitute the majority of the 332 million people living in the United States, with 71% of the population in the 2020 United States Census, including 61.6% who identified as 'white alone.'

What will the country look like racially in 2030? Whites will have dropped to 55.8% of the population, and Hispanics will have grown to 21.1%. The percentage of black and Asian Americans will also grow significantly.

California is the most populous US state.

Centenarians currently make up just 0.03% of the overall U.S. population, and they are expected to reach 0.1% in 2054. The number of centenarians in the United States has steadily ticked up since 1950, when the Census Bureau estimates there were just 2,300 Americans ages 100 and older.

What are the 5 main regions of the United States? ›

A common way of referring to regions in the United States is grouping them into 5 regions according to their geographic position on the continent: the Northeast, Southwest, West, Southeast, and Midwest.

But are you wondering what region is Florida in? The state of Florida is in the southeast part of the United States. Its eastern border is shared with Georgia and its western border is shared with Alabama. All of its other sides are shared with water, as the state separates the Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Mexico.

The United States can be divided into several regions, or areas of land. The United States Census Bureau, for example, divides the United States into four regions: the Northeast, the Midwest, the South, and the West.

Well-preserved relics of our past can be found around the nation. One report by Geotab has identified and mapped 3,800 ghost towns in the U.S., many of which were vacated in the 20th century for greener pastures and big city dreams. However, just because no one lives there doesn't mean you can't visit.

Bodie, California

The term “ghost town” is thrown around so often it's hard to imagine there's really one out there. But Bodie, near the Nevada state line in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, and 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, is the real deal.

Two examples are Pripyat and Chernobyl. After the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, Both cities were evacuated due to dangerous radiation levels within the area. As of today, Pripyat remains completely abandoned, and Chernobyl has around 500 remaining inhabitants. Another example is Todoque in Spain.