Can you name the geographical facts about the West (as defined by the US Census)? by Roxelana

Can you name the geographical facts about the West (as defined by the US Census)?

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Source: US Census
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Sub-Regions
22,065,451
49,880,102

States
989,415
1,567,582
563,626
5,029,196
2,059,179
6,392,017
2,763,885
2,700,551
37,253,956
3,831,074
6,724,540
710,231
1,360,301

State Capitals
29,939
205,707
57,618
610,345
73,720
1,593,659
183,102
52,547
466,676
155,469
42,514
30,988
374,658

Twenty Five Largest Cities
3,831,868
1,593,659
1,306,300
964,695
815,358
616,627
610,345
567,641
566,143
543,910
529,219
479,918
467,157
466,676
462,604
409,189
399,827
374,658
340,338
337,896
324,463
323,348
297,841
287,578
286,174

Twenty Five Largest Metros
12,874,797
4,364,094
4,317,853
4,143,113
3,407,848
3,053,793
2,552,195
2,241,841
2,127,355
1,902,834
1,839,700
1,130,293
1,020,200
915,267
907,574
857,903
807,407
802,983
674,860
626,227
606,376
555,551
541,569
510,385
472,102

Emerging Megaregions of the West
4,733,679
4,535,049
21,858,662
12,724,861
7,400,532

Longest Rivers running through the region
1,980 mi (3,187 km)
1,450 mi (2,334 km)
1,243 mi (2,000 km)

Bordering Ocean
64,100,000 sq mi (169,200,000 sq km) Covers 46% of the Earth's water surface, 30% of it's total surface

Tallest Mountain in America
20,320 ft (6,194 m) The tallest mountain in Alaska, the US, and the 3rd most prominent summit on Earth

Tallest Mountain in the contiguous US
14,505 ft (4,421 m) West-Northwest of the lowest point in North America

Lowest Point in America
5,262 sq mi (13,629 sq km) It is 282 feet (86 m) below sea level, The lowest point in N. America, the US, and the Western Hemisphere. Don't get any funny ideas, if you were meant to live here they'd call it Life Valley

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West USA Geography Profile Quiz

by Roxelana

Created Jan 2, 2011 in Geography
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	Roxelana:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 04:47 GMT		1 point
	The last of the American States, enjoy!

	Roxelana:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 04:57 GMT		0 points
	Is getting SoCal and NorCal for California too easy?

	Roxelana:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 05:00 GMT		2 points
	I have a quiz for each of the four regions of the US in case anyone likes this one and missed em.

	NotYou:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 13:49 GMT		8 points
	Roxelana, I do think getting SoCal and NorCal for California is too easy. I'm from the Midwest, and I even knew those two. I also think that your hints for ocean, both mountain categories, and lowest point are unnecessary. You might also want to try to reorganize the categories a bit, to use the screen space more economically. It is a good quiz overall though, and these are minor issues.

	Geo_Crazy:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 17:11 GMT		5 points
	Pacific Northwest might be better used than Cascadia. I'm from Seattle, and I rarely hear Cascadia being used.

	jeb8787:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 18:04 GMT		5 points
	i agree with Geo_Crazy. I'm also from Seattle and Pacific Northwest is a much more common term. It should at least be an accepted answer...

	bismark76:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 18:14 GMT		7 points
	can you accept "Denali" for Mt. McKinley?

	CDB1986:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 18:24 GMT		3 points
	/ I concur. Although, I guess you need to keep with what the U.S. Census says. I prefer Denali, though, and most people I know are the same.

	BiloxiSean:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 18:48 GMT		3 points
	please accept Inland Empire for the San Bernadino-Riverside Area.

	ras0723:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 19:53 GMT		2 points
	well, i was thinking this was way too much time, but i completely missed the last few categories because i apparently didn't scroll down far enough. whoops.

	Roxelana:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 20:03 GMT		0 points
	Ok, I'll add Inland Empire, Denali, and Pacific Northwest, and I'll take SoCal and NorCal (which I accept by the way) off California. Sorry for missing the obvious, I made three of these quizzes in a row.

	Roxelana:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 20:05 GMT		0 points
	I also take Northwest for the Pacific Northwest too now.

	exackerly:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 20:17 GMT		-1 points
	I enjoyed it more after I clicked Give Up...

	adamnvillani:	Jan 2nd, 2011 at 23:04 GMT		2 points
	You should take "Badwater" for lowest point. It's the name of the actual point within Death Valley.

	Roxelana:	Jan 3rd, 2011 at 01:12 GMT		1 point
	Alright, I'll add Badwater.

	adamnvillani:	Jan 3rd, 2011 at 03:44 GMT		2 points
	What about the Yukon River? Even the part in Alaska is longer than the entire Snake River. And are we going with the total lengths of the rivers, just the parts in the U.S., or just the parts within the Western region?

	Roxelana:	Jan 3rd, 2011 at 04:08 GMT		1 point
	I actually didn't know about the Yukon River when I made this, I'll add it in.

	mike5816:	Jan 8th, 2011 at 17:52 GMT		2 points
	It would be helpful if you could re-arrange the boxes so that more of the quiz fits on the monitor at one time. For example, the "Sub Regions" part, with only three rows, shouldn't be next to "States" and "State Capitals", with 14 rows, because it leaves 11 rows of white space and pushes more of the quiz out of view past the bottom of the screen. Every time I scrolled down, the browser jumped back up to the top when I started to type, and this was annoying.