1. Geography and Administrative Division of the USA
Lecture 1.

2. General information Location – Northern hemisphere, North America
Total area - 9,522,055 km2
Boarders with Canada, Mexico, Russia, Cuba and the Bahamas
bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast.

3. General information
Alaska borders the Pacific Ocean to the south, the Bering Strait to the west, and the Arctic Ocean to the north.
The Hawaii lies far to the southwest of the mainland in the Pacific Ocean.
Population – 310 mln people.
Capital- Washington DC.
The most widely used language is English.

5. The 50 states are divided into distinct sections:
- the “continental United States”, also known as “the Lower 48”, the contiguous United States
- Alaska is physically connected only to Canada
- the archipelago of Hawaii in the central Pacific Ocean.

6. Washington, DC, in early April

7. Washington, DC
the Founding Fathers: the capital should be neutral, not giving favor to any existing state
the District of Columbia was created in 1800 to serve as the seat of the national government.

8. Mountain Ranges

9. Rivers

10. The Great Lakes

11. Niagara Falls
The Niagara River connects Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, on the US-Canadian border

12. The Great Plains

13. Regions

14. Northeast The New England States (Massachusetts, Connecticut, etc)
The Mid-Atlantic States (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania)

15. Southeast
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, etc

16. Southwest
Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada

17. Midwest
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, etc
Great Lakes states and Great Plains states

18. West Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii
Mountain States: Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, etc

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