North Dakota, which is one of the smallest states by population (about 670,000) and one of the largest geographically, has . 7 unemployed persons for every job opening. In the U. S.

北达科他州是人口最小的州，只有67万人口，而在土地面积上却是最大的州，每个就业机会才有0.7个求职人员。

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In a report last year, the consulting firm McKinsey estimated that an additional 350 million people - more than the population of the United States - would move to the cities by 2015.

在去年的一篇报道中，麦肯锡咨询公司估计到2015年城市人口会在增加3.5亿人，这比整个美国的人口还要多。

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This seems all the more remarkable when compared with the United States - many times the area of these three countries - which increased its population by only 109 million in that same period.

比起美国来，这个成就更加显著：美国的领土是这三个国家的数倍，但同期美国的人口仅仅增加了1.09亿。

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Alaska is the biggest of the fifty states by territory but one of the smallest by population.

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And the Senate has equal power with the House of Representatives, where seats are apportioned to states solely by population.

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The eight inland West states now contain six of the top ten fastest-growing states by job creation and population, and five of the ten states with the highest personal-income gains.

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