* The USA
(general facts and geography)
Lucie Syrová
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* General facts
* Flag
* Location on the map
* Surface
* Water
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* the United States of America
* federal constitutional republic
* 50 states and a federal district
* head of the country – president (Barack Obama)
* population over 315,000,000 (including 11.2 million illegal
immigrants)
* nicknames – Pizza, Melting pot
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* 13 horizontal stripes of red alternating with white
= 13 British colonies → the first states in the Union
* blue rectangle bearing 50 white stars
= 50 states of the USA
* nicknamed "Stars and Stripes", "Old Glory" and "The Star-Spangled
Banner"
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* central North America
* 48 states and Washington, D.C. lie between the Pacific and
Atlantic Oceans and Gulf of Mexico in the south
* Alaska in the northwest of the continent
* the state of Hawaii - an archipelago in the mid-Pacific
* bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south
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* very diverse
* the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada in the west
* the coastal plains and the Appalachian Mountains in the east
* central area mostly plains (the Great Plains)
* deserts – e.g. the Mojave
* the highest peak – Mount McKinley (Alaska, 6,194m)
* the lowest point – Death Valley (California, 86m below sea level)
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* the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio river system drains the Great Plains
* the Rio Grande – border with Mexico
* the Great Lakes – border with Canada, the largest group
of freshwater lakes on Earth
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* Flag of the United States. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia
[online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit.
2013-01-05]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_flag
* United States. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online].
San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-0105]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usa
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* ZSCOUT370. Flag of the United States. In: Wikipedia: the free
encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation,
2001- [cit. 2013-01-05]. Dostupné z:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_States.
svg
* MISSMJ. Map of USA with state names. In: Wikipedia: the free
encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation,
2001- [cit. 2013-01-05]. Dostupné z:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_USA_with_state_na
mes.svg
* E PLURIBUS. USA-satellite. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia
[online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 201301-05]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USAsatellite.jpg
* BEYOND MY KEN. Great Lakes from space crop labeled. In: Wikipedia:
the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia
Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-01-05]. Dostupné z:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Lakes_from_space_crop_lab
eled.jpg