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GEOGRAPHICAL
FACTS ABOUT AMERICA
Location:
North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific
Ocean, between Canada and Mexico
Land Size : 9,631,418 sq km
Weather/Climate of America : America has mostly a temperate type of
a climate, but it is tropical in Florida and Hawaii, arctic in Alaska, semiarid
in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin
of the southwest. The low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated
occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern
slopes of the Rocky Mountains
Population of America : 293,500,000
Capital City of America : Washington, DC
American GDP: $10.98 trillion (2003 est.)
Main Industries : Petroleum, motor vehicles, aerospace, steel, telecommunications,
electronics, food processing, chemicals, consumer goods, mining, lumbering.
American Currency : US dollar (USD)
Agricultural products : Wheat, corn, fruits, vegetables, cotton, beef,
poultry, pork, forest products, dairy products, fish.
Main Colors of American Flag : Red, white and blue.
Some US states have cities named the same as other US states. These are:
- Delaware,
Arkansas
- California,
Maryland
- Oregon,
Wisconsin
- Wyoming,
Ohio
- Indiana,
Pennsylvania
- Nevada,
Missouri
- Louisiana,
Missouri
- Kansas,
Oklahoma
- Michigan,
North Dakota
-There
are approximately 500,000 detectable seismic tremors in California annually.
-Rhode
Island is the smallest US state in size.
-New Amsterdam, Indiana is the smallest city in the U.S., they have a population
of 1. (6-04)
-Louisiana
has 2,482 islands, covering nearly 1.3 million acres
-The
states with the smallest populations are: Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, and
Wyoming.
Date/Time Last Modified: 6/30/2006 8:52:29 PM
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