UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The United

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The United States of America is the fourth largest country in the world in area. It covers a large territory ofabout 9,400,000 square kilo- metres in the central and southern part of North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It also includes Alaska in the northwestern part of North America and Ha waii far out in the Pacific Ocean. The United of America bor- ders Canada in the north, and Mexico in the south. The United States is often called the US, the USA, or America One can't describe the country without mentioning its surface. The USA can be divided into three main regions: the Appalachians in the east, the plain in the central part, the Cordilleras Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and the dry Californian Valley between them in the west. Many rivers are flowing through the country, such as the st Columbia and Colorado, the longest Mississippi its main tributaries the Missouri and the Ohio. The northeastern part the USA comprises the region of the five Great Lakes (Superior, Huron, Mich igan, Erie, and Ontario) connected by natural channels which are cut by rapids (the greatest one the Niagara Falls) The USA is rich in natural resources. It has vast areas of fertile soil an abundant water supply, and large areas of forests. There are also large deposits minerals, a such coal, iron ore, natural gas, etc
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The United States is the third largest country in the world in popu lation about 250 million people). About 94 per cent of the people born in the United States. largest foreign-born groups are Mexi- cans, Germans, Canadians, Italians, British, and Cubans. The US has never had an official language, but English has always been the main language spoken in the country. Emigrants from the British Isles, in cluding the nation's founders, spoke English. Spanish is the second most common language in the USA The US consists of 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Dis trict of Columbia is a piece of land set aside by the federal government the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. The United States has a fed- eral system of government with the President at the head The national symbols of the USA include the American flag a the Great Seal. There are 50 stars on the American flag symbolizing 50 states of the USA, and 13 stripes representing 13 original states. On the one side of the Great Seal, there is an eagle holding an olive branch and arrows, which are symbolizing a desire for peace and the ability to wage a war. On the reverse side, there is the Eye of Providence, repre senting God, and a pyramid dated 1776