USA

Capital, Currency, Languages Spoken

• The capital of the USA is Washington D.C.• The currency is the United States

Dollar ($ USD)• English is the national language. However

Spanish is spoken by about 35 million people in the US. Chinese is also spoken by about 2.5 million people.

• The population is around 317,460,000 people.

Government

• The United States is the world's oldest surviving federation. It is a constitutional republic and representative democracy, "in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law". The government is regulated by a system of checks and balances defined by the U.S. Constitution, which serves as the country's supreme legal document.

Main Religions

• Over half of Christian Americans are Protestant. Rhode Island is the only state where the majority of the population is Catholic. Nearly 20% of Americans say they are atheist, agnostic or have no religion. There are also people who practice Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Unitarian Universalism.

Main Cities by Population

City : Population

• New York City 19,015,900• Los Angeles 12,944,801• Chicago 9,504,753• Dallas-Fort Worth 6,526,548• Houston 6,086,538• Philadelphia 5,992,414• Washington, D.C. 5,703,948• Miami 5,670,125• Atlanta 5,359,205• Boston 4,591,112

Mountains, Rivers and Lakes

• The two longest rivers in the USA are:o The Missouri – 3,768km longo The Mississippi – 3,544km long

• The tallest mountain is Mount McKinley in Alaska, at 6,194m. America also has the Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Navade and Cascade mountain ranges.

• The largest lake stretches across the USA-Canadian border. Lake Superior is 82,103km.

Things To Do• See a show on Broadway, New York.

• Visit the Grand Canyon, Arizona

• Camp out in Yosemite National Park, California

Places to See• Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming,

covers 8,983km 2 of canyons, mountains, lakes, forests and rivers.

• Niagara Falls is three waterfalls in New York, America and Ontario, Canada.

• Crater Lake, Oregon is the deepest lake in the US.

Transport

• You need a passport and a visa to get into America.

• There are about 19,000 airports inn the U.S., 5,170 of which are open to the general public.

• The New York subway is a rapid transit system. It is made up of underground trains that crisscross all over New York. The first subway line opened in October 1904.

National Holidays• New Year’s Day – 1st January • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – 3rd Monday of January• Washington’s Birthday – 3rd Monday of February• Memorial Day – Last Monday in May• Independence Day – 4th July• Columbus Day – 2nd Monday in October• Veteran’s Day – 11th November• Thanksgiving Day – 4th Thursday in November• Christmas – 25th December