The United StatesOf America
The United States is the world's third largest country in population
and the fourth largest in size.
- It consists of 50 states and a federal district.
- Washington, D.C., is the capital of the United States
- The state of Alaska is located in extreme northwest North America between
the Arctic and Pacific oceans and is bordered by Canada on the east.
- The state of Hawaii, an island chain, is situated in the east central
Pacific Ocean, 2,100 miles SW of San Francisco.
- New York is the largest city.
- Alaska is the largest state in size (656,424 sq mi)
- California has the largest population
- Wyoming has the fewest people
- The lowest point in North America, in Death Valley is
(282 ft/86 m below sea level).
- The first person to be elected President under the Constitution was
George Washington.
- Our present day President is George Walker Bush. He is our 43rd
president. His father, George Herbert Walker Bush was our 41st
President, serving from 1989 to 1993.
This is the Preamble of the
Constitution of the United States
We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect
union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for
the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the
blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and
establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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