
Area:9,373,000sq kilometers (3,618,919 sq miles).Population:272,639,608 (July 1999) Capital:Washington, Population 889,500 (1992) Language: English Money: US Dollar |
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United States of America is situated in the middle, north-west (Alaska) of North Amerika and
in the middle of Pasific Ocean (Hawaii) and borders Canada, Cuba and Mexico.
The coastal plain in west is mostly moutanly, but inland to the east the
land is plain with forests and lakes. A total of 30%of the country is
covered by forests and woodlands, 207,000 sq km is used for agriculture Climate: Climate: 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 ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Elevation extremes: lowest point: - Death Valley -86 m highest point: - Mount McKinley 6,194 m Forests: Total area - 2 811 900 km2, 30% of the country's territory. Water area: Total area: - 470 131 km2, 30% of the country's territory. |
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