Show fix united states area united states geological sur vey has just issued bulletin by henry gannette which represents the result of conference and operation of the land office census bureau and geological survey in an effort to agree on what constitutes the area of the united baates says a writer in the scientific american the absence of a standard of meas brement for determining the area led to a discrepancy between the tables of the census bureau made in 1887 and those of the general land office prepared in 1899 ahe result of the booi ration of the departments is that the area of the united states proper which is given as 3 78 square miles has been increased avei the census figures by 1188 square miles the b gives the area of alaska as the hawaii porto rico 3 guam samoa 77 and the panama canal strip square miles all of the detached territory is sub eject to change as the limits becom maib defined |