United States Population

The following map, provided by MAPOFUSA.NET, illustrates the population density within the United States of America from data collected from the 2000 Census. The map provides an outline of the entire country and is divided by their respective states. Each state is divided into tiny broken shapes with different shades of red. The darker the red appears, the higher density of population located within its space. Vice versa, the lighter shade of red means the less population within its location. The distribution of population within the map is extremely dispersed to the East and West regions of the country. However, the middle area of the United States has the lightest shading, representing the least amount of population. On the East side of the map there are a myriad of dark-red clusters surrounded by lighter shades of red. On the East population is a lot more dispersed, unlike the West where the majority of population is located only within 3 to 4 states. I find it surprising that the Eastern Region of the United States has the highest population in a large number of states. I did not really know the distribution but it seems a lot more dense than I had imagined.