The United States of America

United States of America
Location:
 the forth largest country in the world
 border on Mexico (south) and Canada (north)
 stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans
 consist of 50 states (Florida, California, Texas, Arizona, Alaska, the Hawaii,
Utah, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, Mississippi, Ohio, Georgia, Alabama,
Louisiana, Carolina, Illinois, Virginia, Nebraska, Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming,
Idaho, New Mexico, Arkansas, Maryland, Pennsylvania,...)
Capital: Washington D. C. (District of Columbia)
President: Barack Obama (the first Afro-American president)
 first president: George Washington
 other famous presidents: Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of
Independence, Abraham Lincoln (American Civil War) abolished slavery,
Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S.
Truman (Korean War), Dwight David Eisenhower, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was
assassinated in Dallas in 1963, Richard Milhous Nixon (Watergate, Vietnam
War), Ronald Wilson Reagan (former actor, negotiating with
Michail Gorbačov), George Herbert Walker Bush (Gulf War),
William Clinton (Monica Lewinski ☺)
Flag: “stars and stripes” (13 stripes = 13 original states, 50 stars = 50
states)
Currency: 1 dollar = 100 cents
Economy:
 the biggest in the world, rich in raw materials (petrol, salt, oil,
natural gas, coal...)
 leading industrial country: chemical, car industry, machinery, computers
 agriculture: soya, maize
 foreign trade: exports machinery, cars, aeroplanes, metal-made products,
chemicals, agricultural products, raw materials, paper, textiles...
 main trading partners Canada and Japan
People:
 original inhabitants American Indians
 British and French
 many people of Hispanic origin
 African – Americans
Famous cities: New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Salem, Detroit, New Orleans, Houston, Miami, Seattle...
Famous rivers: the Mississippi (nicknames Ol' Man River, The Big Muddy, Old Blue,
The Fathers of Water), the Missouri, the Rio Grande, the Colorado, the Yukon, the
Hudson, the Niagara
Famous lakes: the Great Lakes (Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake
Erie, Lake Ontario) on the US-Canadian borders
Mountains: the Rocky Mountains
 the highest mountain: Mt. McKinley in Alaska
 Beautiful countryside (Death Valley in California, Grand Canyon in Arizona)
and many national parks Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National

Park)

Climate: varies, from the Arctic climate to the subtropical, differs inland and on the
coasts

Sport: basketball, baseball, American football, ice – hockey
Culture:
 American cuisine
 films
 music
 literature