About United States of America
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The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America /əˈmɛrɪkə/) 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 satets 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.
- Full name : United States of America
- Population : 314.7 million (UN, 2009)
- Capital : Washington DC
- Largest city : New York City
- Area : 9.8 million sq km (3.8 million sq miles)
- Major language : English
- Major religion : Christianity
CLIMATE: mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
- Life expectancy: 77 years (men), 81 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 US dollar = 100 cents
- Main exports: Computers and electrical machinery, vehicles, chemical products, food and live animals, military equipment and aircraft
- GNI per capita: US $47,580 (World Bank, 2008)
- Internet domain: .us
- International dialling code: +1
At the Declaration of Independence, the United States consisted of 13 states, former colonies of the United Kingdom. In the following years, the number of states has grown steadily due to expansion to the west, conquest and purchase of lands by the American government, and division of existing states to the current number of 50 United States:
| Alabam (AL) | Hawaii (HI) | Massachusetts (MA) | New Mexico (NM) | South Dakota (SD) |
| Alaska (AK) | Idaho (ID) | Michigan (MI) | New York (NY) | Tennessee (TN) |
| Arizona (AZ) | Illinois (IL) | Minnesota (MN) | North Carolina (NC) | Texas (TX) |
| Arkansas (AR) | Indiana (IN) | Mississippi (MS) | North Dakota (ND) | Utah (UT) |
| California (CA) | Iowa (IA) | Missouri (MO) | Ohio (OH) | Vermont (VT) |
| Colorado (CO) | Kansas (KS) | Montana (MT) | Oklahoma (OK) | Virginia (VA) |
| Connecticut (CT) | Kentucky (KY) | Nebraska (NE) | Oregon (OR) | Washington (WA) |
| Delaware (DE) | Louisiana (LA) | Nevada (NV) | Pennsylvania (PA) | West Virginia (WV) |
| Florida (FL) | Maine (ME) | New Hampshire (NH) | Rhode Island (RI) | Wisconsin (WI) |
| Georgia (GA) | Maryland (MD) | New Jersey (NJ) | South Carolina (SC) | Wyoming (WY) |
President: Barack Obama Democratic Senator Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the United States in an historic election win in November 2008.
His victory over his opponent John McCain ended eight years of Republican rule in the White House.
Mr Obama re-drew the US political map as he defeated Mr McCain, who struggled in vain to distance himself from the unpopular presidency of George W. Bush. As well as holding all the traditionally Democratic states, the Obama campaign captured a number of states once seen as Republican strongholds.
Mr Obama clinched the Democratic Party's nomination in June 2008, following a long and bruising primary race with former first lady and fellow Democratic senator, Hillary Clinton. Mr Obama is America's 44th president and was inaugurated on 20 January 2009.
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