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intradutiontophysicalandhumangeographyoftheUSAintradutiontophysicalandhumangeographyoftheUSA
The Uniter States is a federal constitutional republic. The country is situated mostly in central North America in the Western Hemisphere. It consists of forty-eight contiguous states ,Alaska and Hawaii.
The United State shares land borders with Canada to the north and Mexico to the south ,and a territorial water border with Russia in northwest. The contiguous forty eight states are otherwise bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the west , the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Gulf of Mexico on the southeast. Alaska border the Pacific Ocean to the south ,the Bering Strait to the west ,and the Atlantic Ocean to the north ; while Hawaii lies far to the southwest of the mainland in the Pacific Ocean.
Forty eight of the states are in the single region between Canada and Mexico; this group is referred to , with varying precision ,and formality, as the continental or contiguous United States, and as the Lower 48
The capital city, Washington ,District of Columbia, The capital city, Washington ,District of Columbia, is a is a federal district located on land donated by the state of Maryland.
The United States could be divided into five regions. These regions are the Northeast ,the Southeast ,the Midwest ,the Southwest ,and the West.
The Appalachians, which run roughly parallel to the east coast, are old mountains with many coal-rich valleys between them.
To the west of the Appalachians lie plateaus built up over the centuries from bits of stone that were washed down from the mountains and then cut into small hills by streams.
Beyond is the great Central Lowland which, in its configuration , resembles the plains of Eastern Europe, or the plains of Manchuria, or the Great Plains of Australia, or certain plains in Africa or South America.
North of the Central Lowland, extending for almost 1,600 kilometers, are the five Great Lakes which the United States shares with Canada.
West of the Central Lowland are the Great Plains, linked to the flat top of a table which is slightly
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