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Learning English: Exploring America

Learning English: Exploring America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

Exploring America

Official Name: The United States of America (the USA, the States)

Status: a federal republic, a union of 50 states

Area: 3623,420 square miles
Capital: Washington DC.

Nationality: American

Languages: English official and predominant. Spanish (mainly in New York City, chiefly Puerto Ricans, Florida (Cubans), Mexican boder. Italina, German, Polish, Yiddish, Russian, Amreican Indian, Chinese, Japanese.

Location: tretching across North America from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, from Canada in the north to Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Gulf of California in the south

Ethnic composition: 79% white, 10% black, 6% Hispanic, and rest from others
Americans are devived from nearly all races and nations including Chinese, Arabs, Polynesians, Eskimo, and what is left of the native Amerindians

Head of the state and Government: President, elected for 4 years.

Legislative body: Congress (bicameral), consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate consists of 100 members - 2 from each state - chosen by popular vote for a 6 year term; a third of its membership is renewed every 2 years. The house of Representatives has about 450 members elected by popular vote every 2 years; each state is entitled to at least 1 representative, with the total number determined periodically according to population.
Local government:50 states with governer elected for each

For more inf. view: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States