The USA

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The USA
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General informations

• Official name The United States of America
• Capital Washington, D.C.
• Currency United States dollar ()
• Situation central North America
• Division federal union of fifty states
• Area 9,826,675 km2
• Neighbouring countries Canada, Mexico and Russia
  

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General informations

• Population about 280 million people (census
  2000) 307 million (estimate 2009)
• Languages English (not official! -national)
  82,1 -gt American English, Canadian English
  Spanish 10 (German, Polish, Greek)
• Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner
• Flag The Stars and Stripes (Star-Spangled
  Banner Flag) -gt seven red, six white horizontal
  stripes and fifty white stars in the blue field
• Motto In God We Trust

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Geography-surface
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Geography-surface

• The highest peak- Mount McKinley (6,194 m above
  sea level) in Alaska Range and Denali National
  Park

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Geography-surface

• The Rocky Mountains
• major mountain range in western (edge of the
  Great Plains)
• stretch more than 4,800 kilometres

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Geography-surface

• The Great Basin
• full of ranges and walleys
• The Great Plains
• lie west of the Mississippi River and east of the
  Rocky Mountains
• agricultural products
• grasslands
• Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico,
  North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and
  Wyoming

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Geography-waters

• The Atlantic Ocean
• The Pacific Ocean
• Rivers
• The Mississippi
• The Missouri
• The Ohio River
• The Tennesee
• Great Lakes
• In the centre (natural border with Canada)
• Lake Erie, Ontario, Michigan, Huron and Superior

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Geography-waters

• Niagara falls
• border between the Canadian province of Ontario
  and the U.S. state of New York
• 52 metres high

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Climate

• Wide variety of climate types (due to USAs large
  size)
• Main influence polar jet stream
• From humid continental in the north to humid
  subtropical in the south tropical in the
  southern tip of Florida or Hawai semi-arid - The
  Great Plains alpine- Western mountains arid in
  the Great Basin, desert in the Southwest,
  Mediterranean in coastal California oceanic in
  coastal Oregon and Whasington subarctic or polar
  most of Alaska.
• Extreme weather- the states bordering the Gulf of
  Mexico hurricanes tornades

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Religion

• Christianity (78.4)
• Protestantism (51.3)
• Roman Catholicism (23.9)
• Unaffiliated, atheist (16.1)
• Judaism (1.7)
• Mormon (1.7)
• Buddhist (0.7)
• Jehovah's Witness (0.7)
• Orthodox Church (0.6)
• other Christian (0.3)
• Islam (0.6)
• Hinduism (0.4)
• other (1.2)

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