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the Pacific Ocean
the Atlantic Ocean
the Gulf of Mexico
Alaska
Hawaii
Canada
Mexico
the Appalachian Mountains
the Rocky Mountains
the Cordillera
the Sierra Nevada
the Mississippi
the Missouri
the Rio Grande
the Columbia
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Lake Michigan
Lake Ontario
Lake Superior
Lake Erie
Lake Huron
Washington D.C.
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Philadelphia
Detroit
San- Francisco
The USA occupies the
central part of North
America.
It stretches from the
Pacific to the Atlantic
Ocean.
The
The United States of
America is the fourth
largest country in the
world (after Russia,
Canada and China).
The United States covers the central portion of
North America and includes Alaska and Hawaii.
• It is washed by the
Pacific Ocean, the
Atlantic Ocean and
the Gulf of Mexico.
• The United States shares land
borders with Canada (to the
north) and Mexico (to the
south), and a territorial water
border with Russia in the
northwest.
• The forty-eight states are
bounded by the Pacific Ocean
on the west, the Atlantic Ocean
on the east, and the Gulf of
Mexico to the southeast.
• Alaska borders the Pacific
Ocean to the south, the Bering
Strait to the west, and the
Arctic Ocean to the north,
while Hawaii lies far to the
southwest of the mainland in
the Pacific Ocean.
US states
The USA is made up of 50 states and the District of
Columbia, a special federal area where the capital of the
country, Washington is situated.
Because of its size and
location, it has a variety of
geographical features.
Large mountains, plains,
vast deserts, wide
canyons, rolling hills,
prairies, frozen tundra,
extensive coasts,
forests, tropical islands,
wetlands, swamps, and
other features can be
found.
Yellowstone is the United States’ first and the most
famous national park. It includes large areas of
Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Yellowstone Park
has many areas with hot springs and geysers.
The Grand Canyon is a
steep-sided gorge carved
by the Colorado River in
the United States in the
state of Arizona.
It is largely contained
within the Grand Canyon
national Park, one of the
first national parks in the
United States.
Death Valley National Park
is the park in southeastern
California and southwestern
Nevada.
The park consists of the
desert area known as
Death Valley, surrounded
by high mountains .
The highest mountains are the Rocky
Mountains, the Cordillera, the Appalachian
Mountains and the Sierra Nevada.
The highest peak is Mount McKinley
which is located in Alaska.
Rocky Mountains
Beyond the beaches and mountains of
California, the Rocky Mountains in the West
give way to a vast central plain, which merges
with rolling hills and low mountains of the
East.
Appalachian Mountains
Mount McKinley
The United States of America has
over 250,000 rivers, with a total of
about 3,500,000 miles of rivers.
The longest river in the USA is the
Missouri River (it is a tributary of
the Mississippi River and is 2,540
miles long), but the biggest in
terms of water volume is the
deeper Mississippi River.
The largest rivers are the Mississippi, the Missouri, the Rio
Grande, the Colorado, the Columbia, the Saint Laurence River,
the Yukon.
• The Great Lakes are a collection of freshwater lakes
located in eastern North America, on the CanadaUnited States border. Consisting of Lakes Superior,
Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, they form the
largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth.
Four of the five lakes form
part of the Canada-United
States border; the fifth, Lake
Michigan, is contained entirely
within the United States.
The Saint Lawrence River,
which marks the same
international border for a
portion of its course, is the
primary outlet of these
interconnected lakes, and
flows to the northern Atlantic
Ocean.
Lake Michigan
Lake Ontario
The population of the country is more than 250 million people.
Americans are made up from nearly all races and nations. That’s
why the USA is called “the melting pot”. The largest cities are: New
York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, San- Francisco,
Washington and others.
Washington
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
1. Where is the USA situated?
2. What world place does the
USA take according to its size?
3.Where is Alaska situated?
4. What are the greatest rivers
of the USA?
5. What is the highest point of
the USA?
6. Which lake of a collection
of fresh water ones lies only
in the USA?
7. What national parks of the
USA do you know?
1. What is the USA washed by?
2. What countries are larger
than the USA?
3. Where is Hawaii situated?
4. What are the chief
mountains of the USA?
5. What is the name of a
collection of fresh water lakes?
6.What is the population of
the USA?
7. What are the largest cities
of the country?
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