(USA) - country in the North America on the Pacific Ocean, Mexico Bay and Atlantic Ocean.

It includes the capital of the Columbia District and fifty states, in this there are forty eight states in the middle and the south part of North America, Alaska (North America) and Hawaii (at the Pacific Ocean ).

There are also depended on territories as a part of USA. For example Virgin Islands (Center America), Guam, Midway, American Samoa, Wake and associated territory like; Portorico, Micronesia federation, Marshal Islands.

Area of the USA is 98,1 mln km2. The United States has the third largest population in the world (after China and India) 260,1 mln people live there. In the Capital of USA - Washington live 585 tys. people. There are 40 conurbation above 1 mln people, the biggest are: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit and Boston.

The most distinctive characteristic of the United States is its people. As nineteenth - - century poet Walt Whitman said, the United States 'is not merely a nation but nation of nations.' People from around the world have come to the United States and influenced its history and culture. Ethnical groups: white people - 76%, mostly descendants of European immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany, Poland. Negroes - 12%, mostly ancestors of slaves, concentrated in the south of the states and the big municipal agglomerations. Latino Americans (8%), Asiatic (3%), Indians (1%, most of them is living in the reservation of the west part of the country). Natural vegetation in the USA is the forest (cover 28% of area). There are over 50 national parks in America, inclusive the first national park in the world - Yellowstone. Primary inhabitants both of the American continents were Indians, whose descendants came 20-50 tys. years ago from Asia. They came across the Bering Strait from Siberia to Alaska at various times when the sea level dropped. The first migration might have been as early as 40000 years ago. Once in America these people migrated east across North America and south through Central and South America. When Columbus arrived in the fifteenth century, there were perhaps 10 million people in North America alone. They had developed many different kinds of societies. These were the people that Columbus called 'Indians,' in the mistaken belief that he had reached the East Indies The United States is a large country and is rich in natural resources. It is a leading producer of fuel - of oil, natural gas, and coal. It is also a leading producer of many other minerals, including copper, gold, aluminum, iron, and lead. The United States grows wheat, corn, and raises many cows, pigs, and chickens.

However, the United States is also a major consumer of resources. This means, for example, that the United States must import much of the fuel it uses.

Not surprisingly, international trade is important to the United States. Major exports include machinery and high - technology equipment, chemicals, cars, aircraft, and grains. Major imports include machinery and telecommunications equipment, oil, cars, metals, and chemicals.