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United States of America • Capital: Washington D.C • Largest City: New York City • President: Barack Obama (the first was Washington) • Legislature : • Congress - Upper House • Senate - Lower House • fifty states and a federal district • bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south • • • • • • • • • • Race/Ethnicity White79.8% African American12.8% Asian American4.5% Native American and Alaska Native1.0% Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander0.2% Multiracial1.7% Hispanic (of any race)15.4% • At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 310 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest both by land area and population independence • The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states • By Thomas Jefferson universities • Harvard • Yale • The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States GEOGRAPHY • The highest peak- Mount McKinley • The Mississippi–Missouri River, the world's fourth longest river system • The Appalachian Mountains ... over 310 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest both by land area and population independence • The United States Declaration... Yale • The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States GEOGRAPHY • The highest peak- Mount McKinley • The Mississippi–Missouri... Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent