Austria

Belgium

Cyprus

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Portugal

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Europe

A world map highlights (blue) the members of the European Monetary Union: Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece, and Cyprus.

Current members of the European Monetary Union

Countries

European Union

European Monetary Union (“Euroland”)

Alaska

Arizona

Utah

District of Columbia

Florida

Idaho

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Vermont

Washington

Wyoming

Montana

Maine

North Dakota

Kentucky

Virginia

Delaware

Mississippi

West Virginia

Nebraska

Texas

Missouri

Louisiana

Hawaii

North Carolina

Oregon

Alabama

New Mexico

Kansas

Wisconsin

New Jersey

South Carolina

Michigan

Connecticut

Pennsylvania

Colorado

Nevada

Massachusetts

Georgia

New York

Maryland

Oklahoma

Tennessee

California

Arkansas

South Dakota

Ohio

Indiana

Minnesota

Iowa

Illinois

None

A map shows that Arkansas is the largest rice producer in the U S. California and Louisiana are medium producers, while Missouri is a small producer. The rice producers are shown by a light orange circle of different size.

Rice production in metric tons by state

Rice Production (U.S.)

North America

USDA

Metric tons

Yukon

Northwest Territories

Nunavut

Nova Scotia

Saskatchewan

New Brunswick

British Columbia

Newfoundland and Labrador

Alberta

Québec

Manitoba

Ontario

A world map shows national parks highlighted in green.

Locations of terrestrial and marine protected areas

National Parks

In North America, national parks are scattered across northern and western Canada, Canada’s Arctic islands, and eastern Canada’s Great Lakes region, Saint Lawrence River Valley, and Maritime Provinces. In the United States, larger national parks are mainly in Alaska and the western states, with a few sizeable parks in the East, including Florida and the Appalachians. Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean have smaller national parks. Most of northeastern Greenland is a national park. In South America, national parks are concentrated in the Amazon basin and in the Patagonian Andes and Tierra del Fuego in the south. In Europe, parks are widely distributed from Iceland to Russia, including the UK, Norway, the Alps, Spain, and southeastern Europe. North Africa and the Sahara have few parks, with some in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Western Sahara, and coastal Mauritania. Sub-Saharan Africa has parks scattered across West, East, and southern Africa, with the largest parks in East Africa along the Great Rift Valley to southern Africa. Madagascar has small parks. Southwest and Central Asia have few parks, with some in Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan. South Asia’s parks run along the Himalayas from Pakistan to Bhutan, with small parks in India and Sri Lanka. In Southeast Asia, Thailand and Indonesia have numerous parks, while other countries have fewer. East Asia shows parks in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, but none in China, North Korea, or Mongolia. Oceania features numerous parks in Australia and New Zealand, mainly on New Zealand’s South Island.

European Monetary Union (“Euroland”)	Rice Production (U.S.)							National Parks
Value	Rice Production (US)	Rice Production (US)	Rice Production (US)	Rice Production (US)	Rice Production (US)	Rice Production (US)	Rice Production (US)	National Parks

	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1.07%