About USA...
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
The United States has the largest, most technologically-advanced, and most diverse economy in the world. While the United States accounts for only about 4 percent of the world's population, its GDP is 26 percent of the world's total economic output. The American economy is a free-market, private enterprise system that has only limited government intervention in areas such as health care, transportation, and retirement.
American companies are among the most productive and competitive in the world. In 1998, 9 of the 10 most profitable companies in the world were American (even the non-U.S. exception, Germany's Daimler-Chrysler, has a substantial part of its operations in the United States). American corporations have considerable freedom of operation and little government control over issues of product development, plant openings or closures, and employment. The United States also has a clear edge over the rest of the world in many high-tech industries, including computers, medical care, aerospace, and military equipment.
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| Location: |
North America |
| Coordinates: |
38 00 N, 97 00 W |
| Int. Dialing Code: |
+1 |
| Currency: |
US Doller |
| Language: |
English & Spanish |
| Area: |
9,826,675 sq km |
| Capital City: |
Washington D.C. |
| Population: |
307,212,123 |
| Population Ranking: |
3rd in the World |
| Employment: |
6% |
| Inflation: |
3.8% |
| GDP: |
$14.44 trillion |
| GDP Ranking: |
2nd in the world |
| GDP Growth: |
0.4% (2008) |
| Internet Users: |
231 million |
| Television Stations: |
2,218 (2006) |
| Phone Lines: |
150 million (2008) |
| Mobile Phones: |
270 million (2008) |
| Major Industry: |
petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining |
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