美国简介(要英语).

1.Location:
North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico
2.Area:
total: 9,631,418 sq km
land: 9,161,923 sq km
water: 469,495 sq km
note: includes only the 50 states and District of Columbia
3.Climate:
mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
4.Population:
295,734,134 (July 2005 est.)
5.Population growth rate:
0.92% (2005 est.)
6.Languages:
English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census)
7.National holiday:
Independence Day, 4 July (1776)
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