FACTS ABOUT AMERICA

Location: North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between the Canada and Mexico

Land Size : 9,631,418 sq km

Weather/Climate of America : America has mostly a temperate type of a climate, but it is tropical in the Florida and in Hawaii, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest. The low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in the January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains

Population of America :   293,500,000

Capital City of America :  Washington, DC

American GDP :                 $10.98 trillion (2003 est.)

Main Industries :               Petroleum, motor vehicles, aerospace, steel, telecommunications, electronics, food processing, chemicals, consumer goods, mining, lumbering.

American Currency : US dollar (USD)

Agricultural products : Wheat, corn, fruits, vegetables, cotton, beef, poultry, pork, forest products, dairy products, fish.

Main Colors of American Flag : Red, white and blue.

Some US states have cities named the same as other US states. These are :

* Delaware, Arkansas

* California, Maryland

* Oregon, Wisconsin

* Wyoming, Ohio

* Indiana, Pennsylvania

* Nevada, Missouri

* Louisiana, Missouri

* Kansas, Oklahoma

* Michigan, North Dakota

There are approximately 500,000 detectable seismic tremors in California annually.

Rhode Island is the smallest US state in size.

New Amsterdam, Indiana is the smallest city in the U.S., they have a population of 1. (6-04)

Louisiana has 2,482 islands, covering nearly 1.3 million acres.

The states with the smallest populations are: Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.