The United states of America are a federative presidential republic in North America, spreading out from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. Thanks to Aljaska exclava, the territory of the USA stretches also to coasts of Arctic Ocean and to some Pacific‘s islands. The United States contain fifty states. The capital city is Washington D. C. The abbreviation D. C. means District of Columbia. The highest mountain is Mount McKinley, the longest river is the Mississippi and the largest city is New York.
Probably the first Europeans who achieved America were Vikings. The Caribbean was discovered by Christopher Columbus and wrongly named as East Indies and its inhabitants Indians. Soon it turned out, that the land isn‘t part of Asia but a new world which was then named after Amerig Vespucci - one of the seafarers who came after Columbus.
There are approximately 300 milion inhabitants in the USA. Population composition vary a lot because of enormous immigration having being so characteristic since the very beginning of the country’s history.
The first settlers from the Old World were coming mostly from northwest Europe, especially from England, Ireland, the Nederlands, Germany, France and Spain. The black population was being imported especially from coasts of East Africa because of slave labour on plantations.
The USA haven´t got any official language. However, the most widely used language is English. There are also Spanish in New Mexico and French in Louisiana, for example. The situation is more varied in some of another parts of the USA - a language of original inhabitants is there often protected by special rules.
The United States are the oldest federation in the world. It is a representative democracy functional throught congres system which is defined by the USA Constitution. That way territory falls under three agencies – federal, state and local. Political system is based on a majority system. Two main parties dominate american politics – the Republican party and the Democratic party. In the American political culture is The Republican party understood as conservative, the Democratic party as liberal. Since 2009 the current president of the United States of America is Barack Obama.
The most prestigious professional sport is american football. It originates from american universities. Another favourite sports are baseball and hockey.
Thanks to its size the USA lie in several significant climate passes. The weather is inconstant and the fluctuations in temperature can come several times a day.
The northern part of territory lies in a gentle pass but it is colder and more humid than Europe. It implicated cold Labrador Current which bathes northeast and east coast. The coldest nights are in the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada where we can experience one of the strongest frosts in America.
The United States are rich in mineralogical resources and take the first position in crude oil production in the world. The most important branch of industry is still engineering - especially production of transport facilities and agricultural and building technics. Electronic industry takes the second position.
Approximately the half of the area of the United States is used for agricultural purposes. Production exceede in-state consumption and the country is one of the largest exporters of groceries. The high mechanization evoked that only about two percent of employable population works in agriculture. The main crops are maize, wheat or soja beens. The most numerous group of keeped animals are cattle and fowls.
I would like to visit the Yellowstone national park. It is the oldest national park in the world. There is a lot of cascades and mountain springs. There live a lot of interesting animals, for example a grizzly bear, american black bear, coyotes and other mammals. There is a lot of kinds of birds including the national bird of the USA – the bald eagle.
Famous cities:
New York (the most populous, statue of liberty, brodway)
New Haven (yeale university)
Pittsburgh (technology, financial services)
Detroit (the production of cars – ford, chrysler; is one of the cities with the highest criminality in the USA, the first mayor was Czech with name Čermák)
Washington D. C. (the White house)
San Francisco (the Golden Gate bridge, Alcatraz Island)
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