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United States of America... • 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

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

• Race/Ethnicity

• White 79.8%

• African American 12.8%

• Asian American 4.5%

• Native American and

• Alaska Native 1.0%

• Native Hawaiian and

• Pacific Islander 0.2%

• Multiracial 1.7%

• 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

• The United States Declaration of

Independence is a statement adopted by

which announced that the

with Great Britain were now independent states

• By Thomas Jefferson

• Harvard

• Yale

• The Ivy League is an athletic conference

comprising eight private institutions of

higher education in the Northeastern

United States

• The highest peak- Mount McKinley

• The Mississippi–Missouri River, the world's fourth longest river system

• The Appalachian Mountains