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United States

The United States is made up of 52 states. The United States borders both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific Oceans, Canada and Mexico and is about half the size of Russia and South America but more than twice the size of the European Union. The climate of the United States is mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the Great Plains west of the Mississippi River and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest. Low winter temperatures in the northwest are tempered occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The terrain is made up of vast central plains, mountains in west, hills and low mountains in east; rugged mountains and broad river valleys in Alaska; rugged, volcanic topography in Hawaii.

The US has the largest and most technologically powerful economy in the world. US firms are at or near the forefront in technological advances, especially in computers and in medical, aerospace, and military equipment. Farming, forestry, and fishing, manufacturing, extraction, transportation, crafts, managerial, professional and technical, sales and office work make up the majority of occupations in the United States.

Natural Resources include coal, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber.

Agriculture products include wheat, corn, other grains, fruits, vegetables, cotton, beef, pork, poultry, dairy products, fish and forest products. Other industries include petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber and mining. Exports include agricultural products such as soybeans, fruit and corn, industrial supplies, capital goods such as transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment, consumer goods like automobiles and medicines.

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Quick Facts

Population: 298,444,215 as of 2006
Capital City: Washington, DC
Largest cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose
Square Miles: 3,615,123 sq. mi.
Per Capita Personal Income: $38,611 as of 2007
Did You Know?

That the motto of the United States is “In God We Trust”?

That the highest point is Mt. McKinley, Alaska, 20,320 ft. (6194 m.) above sea level?

That the lowest point is Death Valley, California, 282 ft (86 m.) below sea level?

That the national flower of the United States is the Rose?

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