At first glance, Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” may look like any other U.S. wall map. It’s about 4 feet by 3 feet. It uses a standard, two-dimensional ...

70 Maps of the US That Teach Us Many Curious Things Other Than Geography There’s no denying the United States has a rich tapestry of cultures, traditions, and lifestyles.

Map of the U.S. featuring general hardness of the aggregate in that geographical location. Areas in red (California, Arizona, etc.) are granite, slate, traprock, basalt and quartzite.

According to an interactive map from the U.S. Geological Survey, the majority of these places are in the Western part of the country with California renaming 80 geographical features.