1. Stars and stripes. Welcome to the USA! “America! Who has seen you once, will never forget” Jack London

2.  The USA is the fourth largest country in the world in size and population.

3.  The USA is placed in the middle of the North American continent and washed by the Atlantic Ocean in the east and the Pacific Ocean in the west. It has an area 9400000 square kilometers and is twice as large as all the countries of Europe combined. In the USA live 290 million people. The capital of the USA is Washington,D.C.(District of Columbia)

4.  The USA consists of fifty states. The largest state is Alaska. Hawaii is one of the smallest states.

5.  Along the Atlantic Coast the land is flat, inland from the coast there are the Appalachian Mountains. In the middle of the continent there is the great Mississippi River. The Mississippi is one of the longest rivers in the world. The north-western part of the USA includes five lakes.

6.  The main rivers are the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Colorado and the Ohio.

7.  The capital of the USA is Washington. It is situated on the Potomac River not far from the Atlantic coast. Wasington is not a very large city. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Detroit, New Orleans are larger.

8.  The capital of the United States of America was founded in 1791 in the District of Columbia. The capital received the name of Washington — after the name of the commander-in- chief of the American army in the War for Independence who became the first President of the United States.

9.  New York is one of the largest cities in the world. Its population is over 11 million people. New York is an industrial and cultural centre of the country. Most business is centered in Manhattan Island. The whole area is very small, that's why the sky-scrapers were invented in New York and, especially, in Wall Street.

10. USA political structure The United States is a federal republic. The highest legislative body - the Congress (the House and the Senate). Individual states are formally independent states. They have their own laws and authorities that are independent of the federal.

11. The head of the state is the president, who is elected every four years. In addition, each state has its own legislature and the The president and vice president are elected every four years

12. Christmas and Halloween

13. George Washington’s birthday and St. Valentine’s Day

14. The Independence Day

15. American Symbols TThe flag of the USA TThe Statue of Liberty TThe Liberty Bell