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United States of America
- a federal republic comprising 50 states with some autonomy,
and the Federal District of Columbia. 48 states are compact, 2 -
separately: Alaska (the status of the state received in 1958) and Hawaii
(the status of the state received in 1959). In addition, the United States
belong to the island of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in the
Caribbean, Eastern Samoa, Guam and the islands of Micronesia (United
Nations trust territory) in the Pacific Ocean and the Pacific atolls of
Wake and Midway, equipped to test missiles. It has borders with Canada, in
the south - Mexico. On the east by the Atlantic Ocean in the south - the
Gulf of Mexico, the West - the Pacific Ocean. Covers an area of 9666861
square kilometers, of which 1593438 sq.km. accounted for Alaska and 16,729
sq km to Hawaii. The highest point in the country (and throughout North
America) is located in Alaska - Mount McKinley (

6194 m), the lowest place - the Valley of Death (86 m below sea level)
- is in California. The average height of the United States about 760 m
above sea level.

Physiographic area of the country is very diverse. About half of the
territory occupied by mountain ranges, plains and plateaus of the
Cordillera, the eastern edge of the belt of the Cordillera mountain ranges
form the Rocky Mountains with a height of more than 4000 m. To the east
are Appalachian Mountains (2037 m). Between the Cordilleras and the
Appalachians are vast inland plains - Central, Great - and
Primeksikanskaya lowland. In the west, many rivers form the magnificent
beauty of the canyons, breaking ridges. In the north is a chain of Great
Lakes - Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario - an area of about
200000 square kilometers In the glacial period in the country there were
several tens of thousands of small lakes, among which stands out
Vinnipeski, Cayuga and Shapleyn in the north-east and Vinnibago, Red
Mill-Lax in the Midwest. Utah is located in the Great Salt Lake, is also
formed by glaciers. Rivers east of the United States, chief among which
are the Hudson, Delaware,
Saskehanna, Potomac and Savannah is very full-flowing and navigable
almost throughout. Rivers center of the country, such as Ohio, Tennessee,
Illinois and Mississippi in the spring often are filled, and the hot
summer water levels in them falls markedly. Further to the west are such
rivers as the Missouri, Arkansas, Rio Grande, Colorado, Sacramento, Snake,
Columbia. The main river is the Yukon in Alaska. United States population
(estimated for 1995) is about 263,437,000 people, the average population
density of about 30 persons per sq. km

Ethnic Groups:
America is a multiethnic country with many nationalities, many of whom
have preserved their language and traditions and if we divide the
population into three large groups of racial lines, whites make up about
84% of the population (among them the most outstanding are the diaspora of
the Irish, Italians, Jews, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian), Africans (mostly
descendants of slaves brought from the African continent in the XVIII
century) - about 12%, Asians and Pacific Islanders - about 3%, American
Indians (indigenous people of the United States) - less than 1% came from
Latin America, the so-called "Latino" - about 9%.

Religion: Christian believers make up the majority of the U.S.
population, including most Catholics - 25% of the population, followed by
Baptists - 19,4%, Methodist - 8%, Presbyterian - 2,8%, Pentecostal - 1.8%,
Episcopal Church -- 1,7%, a large number of residents belong to the
Orthodox Church, among the largest non-Christian groups distinguished Jews
- 2%, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus.

The country is located in the zone of five time zones, so the time lags
from Moscow by 7-12 hours. In the eastern part of the (Washington, New
York, Philadelphia, Boston) - behind in Moscow for 8 hours. On the last
Sunday in March to last Sunday in October - at 9 o'clock. Alaska - 11 (12)
hours. In Hawaii, the time difference with Moscow - minus 14 hours in the
summer, minus 13 hours - in the winter.