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United States of America


• Capital: Washington D.C.
• Largest City: New York City
• President: Barack Obama (the first was
Washington)
• Legislature :
• Congress - Upper House
• Senate - Lower House
• fifty states and a federal district
• bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to
the south.


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Race/Ethnicity
White79.8%
African American12.8%
Asian American4.5%
Native American and

Alaska Native1.0%
Native Hawaiian and
Pacific Islander0.2%
Multiracial1.7%
Hispanic (of any race)15.4%


• At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million
km2) and with over 310 million people, the
United States is the third or fourth largest
country by total area, and the third largest
both by land area and population.


independence
• The United States Declaration of
Independence is a statement adopted by
the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776,
which announced that the
thirteen American colonies then at war
with Great Britain were now independent
states.
• By Thomas Jefferson



universities
• Harvard
• Yale
• The Ivy League is an athletic conference

comprising eight private institutions of
higher education in the Northeastern
United States.


GEOGRAPHY
• The highest peak- Mount McKinley
• The Mississippi–Missouri River, the
world's fourth longest river system
• The Appalachian Mountains