Country comparison: Reunion / United States of America

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Reunion and United States. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Reunion	United States
Region:	Eastern Africa	North America
Area:	2,512 km²	9,831,510 km²
National language:	French	English
Government form:	Overseas territory of France	Federal presidential republic
Capital:	Saint-Denis	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Reunion	United States
Population:	699,000	331,894,000
Inhabitants/km²:	278.3	33.8

Economy

	Reunion	United States
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)

	REU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.

Infrastructure

	REU: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Passenger airports:	2	0.0029	436	0.0013

Telecommunication

	Reunion	United States
International dialing:	+262	+1
Internet domain:	.re	.us

	REU total	REU per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Reunion and United States

	Reunion	United States
Daytime temperatures:	28.0 °C	18.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.2 °C	7.3 °C
Water temperature:	25.3 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	74 %	67 %
Rain days:	10.2	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	7.0	7.2

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Reunion
United States

Native languages

	Reunion	United States
Creole-French:	91.5 %	n/a
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	2.8 %	0.9 %
Comorian:	2.8 %	n/a
Malagasy:	1.4 %	n/a
French:	0.7 %	0.7 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	0.8 %	2.6 %

Data inventory and updates

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Reunion	United States of America
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