Saturday 25 February 2012

Profile of USA

Capital:  Washington, D.C.
Largest city:  New York City
National language: English
Government:  Federal presidential constitutional republic
President:  Barack Obama
Vice President:  Joe Biden
Legislature:Congress
Upper House:Senate
Lower House:House of Representatives
Declared:July 4, 1776
Area:Total
9,826,675 km2
3,794,101 sq mi
Population:2010 census
308,745,538 --

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D..C the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2010 GDP of $14.780 trillion (23% of nominal global GDP and 20% of global GDP at purchasing power parity).

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