The United States of America The USA is the most powerful industrial and agricultural country. The total area of the USA is over 9,833,500 sq km. It is situated in the central part of the North American continent. It stretches from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Atlantic Ocean in the east, from Canada in the north to Mexico in the south. The continental part of the USA consists of two highland and two lowland regions. The highland regions are the Appalachian Mountains in the east with the highest peak 2,037 metres high and the Cordillera with the highest peak 6,168 metres high and the Rocky Mountains in the west. The central lowlands, called the prairie, and the eastern lowlands, called the Mississippi Valley, are between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains.

There are the five Great Lakes: Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario between the USA and Canada and the Great Salt Lake in the west of the USA. The main rivers of the USA are the Mississippi, one of the largest rivers in the world, the Missouri, the Rio Grande, the Yukon, the Colorado, the Columbia and the St Lawrence River. Washington is the capital of the USA. The largest cities of the USA are: Chicago, Detroit, New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Georgia, Houston, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Phoenix, San Diego, Dallas, Boston. Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, Atlanta are the most important ports of the USA. The largest city in the United States of America is New York and it is one of the largest cities in the world with the population of more than 19 million people. The second-largest city is Los Angeles. This city is the centre of Greater Los Angeles with a population of over 18 million people. The third is Chicago. It is the largest financial centre, too. Houston with the population of over 2 million people is the fourthlargest city. The fifth-largest city is Philadelphia. It is one of the oldest cities in the USA. It was founded in 1682.

Phoenix is the sixth-largest city. It is the capital of Arizona. It was founded on the territory inhabited by the Indians. San Diego was founded on the territory inhabited by the Indians, too. Its population is 1,394,900 people. It is the second-largest city in California. Two large cities Dallas and San Antonio are located in Texas. The cities are the centres of industry and tourism. Detroit is one of the last among the largest cities of the USA. It is the biggest centre of automotive industry not only in the USA but also in the world.

The most interesting places of the USA are the National Mall, Walt Disney World, Hearst Castle, the Empire State Building, the Gateway Arch, the Parthenon, Cedar Point Park, the Grand Canyon. The Empire State Building is the 34th-tallest building in the world. It has become not only a symbol of New York but also part of its history. The Metropolitan Museum of Art with huge collections of art is the most important museum in the United States of America and is known widely all over the world. Here is the Statue of Liberty, too — a symbol of the USA. Washington, the capital of the USA, with the white, huge dome of the Capitol standing on a circle of pillars is one of the most beautiful and unusual cities in the USA. Its Library of Congress, the largest in the USA, contains more than 13 million books, more than 19 million manuscripts, including the personal papers of the US presidents.

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