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General information about United States






United States





One of the great Powers, the official name of the United States of America, the third largest country in the world after Russia and Canada in terms of area, and also third in the world's most populous country after China and India, the United States occupies the central part from North America of all of Canada in the north and Mexico in the south, its capital is Washington, and America has the mandate of 48 related to each other geographically, as well as each of the states of Alaska and Hawaii.

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United States located in the North American continent, specifically in the center of the continent's share in terms of its northern border with Canada, and the Middle Atlantic, and is bounded to the south the United Mexican States, and the Gulf of Mexico, bounded on the west Pacific Ocean.

For the states of Hawaii and Alaska of the United States and the United States, State of Hawaii is an island in the Pacific Ocean, but for the jurisdiction of Alaska located in the Arctic Ocean north of Canada and in the east, and Pacific Ocean in the south and the Arctic Ocean and the Sea and the Chukchi Sea and Bering Strait to the west.


Information on the American
Area: total area of the United States of America 9.826.630 km 2.
Population: a population of about 298.444.215 people.
DC: Washington
Language: The official language of the country is English in addition to a number of languages such as Spanish, and some European languages of India.
Currency: U.S. dollar equal to 100 cents.
Religion: Protestant represents the vast majority of more than half of the population, then the Catholics, Jews and Muslims.


The surface manifestations of
The United States is characterized by great diversity in the manifestations of the surface, where the coastal plain, cut off the Atlantic Ocean to the Appalachian Mountains, which are from north to south between the Great Lakes and the state of Alabama and the Appalachian Mountains with a series of both the mountains and the white mountains and green Neaoungeland Alkatskels in New York and the Mountains "Blorig" and " Great Smoky "in the south-east, south of the Appalachian Mountains accommodate the coastal plain of the Atlantic Ocean when it nears the Gulf of Mexico and extends around the Florida peninsula, and to the west of the Appalachian separated the north from the Gulf Plains Great Plains of high hills," Ozark ", which are Missouri, Arkansas and Oclahoma . Behind the Great Plains in the West, the Rocky Mountains rise to more than (14000 feet) and includes the Pacific coast of the many mountain ranges including the Cascade mountain range and Serranivada and the coast mountain range. The highest mountain is Mount Mcnli State of Alaska, which is high (20,320 feet). There are many important rivers that flow into the United States, including: the Mississippi River system, which includes the Missouri River and Illinois River and the Ohio River and the Platte River and the Red River and Arkansas, which feed the central plains and the Columbia River in the north-west and the Grand River and the Colorado River in the south-west. The largest lakes are the Great Lakes State, which lies on the border with Canada is one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world.


Climate
Prevail in the United States of America in the most temperate climate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, polar in Alaska, and semi-arid in the Great Plains to the west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the great basin in the south-west.


Regime
System of government the United States of America Republic, where presidential elections are held every four years,


White House
The senators are elected for a term of six years, and members of the House of Representatives shall be elected for two years.
Judicial system is based on the unwritten English law, and the dual court system to the states and federal.

There are two major American parties Qumian are the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in addition to a range of other small parties.

It is divided into three branches of government are the "executive branch" includes the President and Vice-President and the ministries and federal agencies, "the legislative branch" includes the Senate and the House of Representatives, "the judicial branch" includes the Supreme Court, the federal court system.


Mount Rushmore Mount sculpted by the Presidents of America

Kchav America Christopher Columbus, who came out in October 1492, and the American people, traces its roots to the Europeans who emigrated to the United States after the discovery, the indigenous people of the country are American Indians.
The United States fought a number of wars including the war in 1812 between China and Britain, and in 1846 was the beginning of the Mexican War between the United States and Mexico, the Spanish-American War in 1898, the First World War, which entered in 1917 after German violations of the neutrality of the United States entered the war as Second World in 1941 after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor - Hawaii, participated in the Gulf War in 1991, and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

United States of America suffered in ten of the atheist in September 2001 for the suicide attack was the collision of two planes struck the world trade in New York as a third plane crashed into a building, the U.S. Department of Defense, "Pentagon", the blasts rocked the American people and the world, where he lived after the American people a state of shock, fear, and decided to United States of America, then launch a war against terrorism.

National Day is the United States of America Independence Day July 4.


Cities and Tourism

Washington, DC, is located in the District of Columbia on the west coast of the United States of America, there are


Statue of Liberty
Many milestones, including the White House, Congress and many other tourist attractions, among them a financial instrument that the securities printing currency, and memorials of the Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, Library of Congress, the Department of National Records and Archives, as there are a number of museums including the Natural History Museum, the Museum of American History, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of postage stamps, and other tourist attractions Myeongdong by St. Matthew, and the Ford Theater, the Old Post Office, and Volger Shakespeare Library, which includes the largest collection of books the English novelist and poet William Shakespeare.
New York State is one of the most famous of American States so that the fame and reputation is almost beyond Washington, DC, and New York is located in the northeast United States and many of the important tourist attractions including the Statue of Liberty, United Nations Building, Castle Clinton, and is replete with many museums, theaters and cinemas and skyscrapers, and with the Niagara Falls on the border with Canada, and the New York Stock Exchange, which is of the most famous and largest stock exchanges the world, and Times Square.

California is the far west of the United States, months and features Death Valley and Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the United States of America, the Golden Gate Bridge, Iuzmic National Park, as well as entertainment for the city of Disneyland, and the capital of the world of Hollywood cinema.

There are many states of America, which includes many tourist attractions, including: the mandate of "South Dakota" and that there are months in the world, Mount Mt Mount Rushmore, which was carved months for American Presidents such as George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, the state also has moderate climate and landscape scenery, with many mountains, rivers, caves and the state is the source of tourist attraction for many tourists, and also there is the mandate of "Minnesota", which is famous for the presence of thousands of lakes and is famous for beautiful scenery, where the tourist flock by the number of tourists, the famous and the United States also has the mandate " Mississippi ", which includes the famous Mississippi River, as there are field and Vksbarak military cemetery, a museum of Elvis Presley and the Smith Robertson Museum and the mandate of" Nevada "because of the name of the Spanish language it means" of the ice caps, "Among the most famous landmarks and entertainment clubs, the cities of Las Vegas and Reno, and also A number of resorts such as the Lakes Pyramid Lake, Lake Tahoe, Lake Mead, Hoover Dam, as well as in Virginia.

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