Презентація. "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA"

The United States of America

North American continent

Administratively the country is divided into 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The United States of America is situated in the central and southern part of the of 540.939 square miles. It is bounded by Canada in the north and It has ain the south. The country is washed by the Atlantic Ocean in the east the Pacilic Ocean in the west and the Gulf of Mexico in the south.

The population of country is 239 million people, who are called Americans. Оfficial language of the United States is American English.

The continental part of the USA consists of the highland regions and two lowland regions. The highest regions are the Appalachian mountains in the east and the Cordillera in the west.

The highest top in America situated in Alaska is Mc. Kinley e 6.194 metres high; in the Cordillera - Witny, it is 4418 metres high, in the Appalachian Mountains the highest top is Michel, it is 2.037 metres high.

The Mississippi together with the Missouri form the longest river in the world (7.300km).

The greatest rivers of the USA are the Columbia, the Colorado, the Saint Lawrence River and the Hudson river.

The region of the five Great Lakes includes Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie and Ontario.

About one third of the United States is forestland.

The animal life of the continental part is diverse.

There are 32 national parks in the USA. The most interesting among them is Yellowstone park. Yellowstone National Park (Yellowstone) is the very first national park in the world, which was founded in 1872. It is located in the United States on a territory belonging to three states at once: Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Today Yellowstone is one of the last large ecosystems on our planet in the temperate northern latitude. The Yellowstone Natural Park has more than 300 geysers in the mouth of a giant supervolcano (Yellowstone Caldera), as well as picturesque canyons and many beautiful waterfalls. It is also a natural habitat for the wild bison (buffalo) that once roamed the great Plains in abundance. Besides them, you can meet bears, wolves, coyotes, deer and elk here. Yellowstone National Park (Yellowston)

A herd of bison in Yellowstone Park

The United States of America is rich in a variety of mineral resources. It is the world leader in the production of many important mineral resources: aluminium. copper, lead, nickel, salt, phosphates, uranium and zinc. The USA is rich in oil, coal and natural gas, gold, silver, mercury, magnesium, titanium.

Heavy industry prevails in the USA, including such branches as mining, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy. Oil and gas industry, shipbuilding, ship-repairing, mechanical engineering and chemical industries. Being well developed light industry includes textile and footwear industries. Computers and automatic systems characterize the advance in technology.