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Official Name: The United States of America
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Location: located in North American continent, the United States is bounded by Canada to the north, the Caribbean Sea and Mexico to the south, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.Alaska, to the northwest of Canada, and Hawaii, in the central Pacific Ocean, are the noncontiguous states of the United States. There is considerable climatic variation, with annual average temperatures ranging from 29`C in Florida to -13.3`C in Alaska. Average annual rainfall ranges from 1,831 mm in Arkansas to 191 mm in Nevada. Much of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and Utah is desert.
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Area: 9,372,614 sq.km.
Land Use-19.1% cropland; 24.4% permanent pasture; 31.3% forests and woodland; 25.2% other; arable land per capita-1.9 acres; land borders-7,611 miles; coastline-12,381 miles.
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Population: 281.4 m. (2000.12.8)
Density-30 inhabs. Per sq. km. ; urban pop.-76.2%; growth rate per year-0.%; average life expectancy-77.7 years(2000-2010)
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Capital: Washington, DC; pop-543,213(1996 estimate)
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Time: The continental United States covers four time zones. New York City is 5 hours later than Greenwich Mean.
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Language: There is no official language in the United States; English is the predominant language, but a substantial minority speaks Spanish.
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Ethnic Composition: White-82.9%; Black-12.7% Asian and Pacific Islander-3.3%; American Indian, Eskimo, and Aleut-0.8%; other-01%.(2000)
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Religion: Christianity is the predominant religion. with 85.3% of the population believing in it, of which 57.9% are Protestants, 21.0% are Roman Catholics, and 6.4% are other christians. besides 2.1% are Jewish, 1.9% Muslim; 8.7% Nonreligious and 2.0% other (1995).
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Currency: 1 U.S.dollar=100 cents; 1 U.S.dollar= 1.0293 euro (2000.3.17)
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Holidays (2001): Jan 1 (New Year's Day), Jan 15 (Martin Luther King Day), Feb 12 (Presidents' day), May 28 (Memorial Day), Jul 4 ( Independence Day), Sep 3 ( Labor Day), Oct 9 (Columbus Day), Nov 11 ( Veterans' Day), Nov 22 (Thanksgiving Day), Dec 25 (Christmas).
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Administrative Districts: The whole country is divided into 50 states and one district-District of Columbia. Besides, the United States administers in trust or holds sovereignty in a number of Pacific and Caribbean islands, which include American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated State of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the US Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and a number of other small islands.
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˹ӣŵAlaska (Juneau)
ɣǣ˹Arizona ( Phoenix)
ɫСʯǣArkansas ( Little Rock)
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ࣨColorado (Denver)
Ҹظ£Connecticut (Hartford)
Delaware (Dover)
Florida (Tallahassee)
ǣGeorgia (Atlanta)
ģ̴ɽHawaii (Honolulu)
ɣIdaho (Boise)
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ӡڰɣӡڰɲ˹Indiana (Indianapolis)
ߣ÷Iowa (Des Moines)
˹ƤKansas (Topeka)
˸Kentucky (Frankfort)
·˹ǣ³գLouisiana (Baton Rouge)
¹˹Maine (Augusta)
ɲ˹Maryland (Annapolis)
ʿ٣Massachusetts (Boston)
ЪMichigan (Lansing)
մʥޣMinnesota ( St. Paul)
ȣܿѷMississippi (Jackson)
ѷǣMissouri (Jefferson City)
ɴãȣMontana (Helena)
ڲ˹ӣֿϣNebraska (Lincoln)
ڻɭǣNevada (Carson City)
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٣New Jersey (Trenton)
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ɣNorth Carolina (Raleigh)
˹North Dakota (Bismarck)
ײOhio (Columbus)
ǣOklahoma (Oklahoma City)
ոԣķOregon (Salem)
Ϧǣ˹Pennsylvania (Harrisburg)
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ϿɣױǣSouth Carolina (Columbia)
ϴƤSouth Dakota (Pierre)
ʲάTennessee (Nashville)
ÿ˹˹͡Texas (Austin)
κǣUtah (Salt Lake City)
أɱVermont (Montpelier)
ǣʿVirginia (Richmond)
ʢ٣ƥǣWashington (Olympia)
ǣ˹٣West Virginia (Charleston)
˹ǣѷWisconsin (Madison)
ӣWyoming (Cheyenne)
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New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, San Antonio, Detroit, San Jose, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Columbus, Ohio, Milwaukee, Memphis, El Paso, Boston, Seattle, Austin, Nashville-Davidson, Denver, Cleveland, New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Portland, OR, Kansas City, MO, Charlotte, Tucson,Long Beach, CA, Virginia Beach, VA, Albuquerque, Atlanta, Fresno, Honolulu, Tulsa, Sacramento, Miami, St. Louis, Oakland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Omaha, Las Vegas, Toledo, Colorado Springs.
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