美国地理 geography of the USA.pptVIP

General introduction The land area of the contiguous United States is 2,959,064 square miles (7,663,941 km2). Alaska, separated from the contiguous United States by Canada, is the largest state at 663,268 square miles (1,717,856 km2). Hawaii, occupying an archipelago in the central Pacific, southwest of North America, is 10,931 square miles (28,311 km2) in area. New York City Wall Street and the office skyscrapers clustered around it, Fifth Avenue running up the centre of the island, with Broadway slanting from it, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Centre, the United Nations B