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USA

• Оfficial not rank of the USA: United States of America

The area

• The area of the USA makes 9 857 000 km

The population

• The population of the USA as of April, 2015 made 325,7 million people. In ten years (from 2000 to 2010) the population of the USA increased by 9,7%.
• Population density — 34 people/sq.km (2015). Urban population — 81,4% (2014).

Official language

• In the USA there is no official state language. Nevertheless, actually that is English (if is more exact, the American option of English).
• About 80% of the population of the USA are called by English native and about 96% of residents of the United States of America well speak English.
• Proposals on legislative fixing of the status of English as state language of the USA were repeatedly made. Such decision was made by a number of states, but it wasn't accepted at the federal level.
• In the last decades number of people in America for which English native, decreases (in 1980 such people there were 89%, in 1990 — 86%, now - about 80% of the population of the USA).
• Language, the second for prevalence, in the USA - Spanish, on it is told by more than 12% of the population of the United States of America, it is especially widespread in the south of the USA and the West of the USA. A share of residents of the USA for whom Spanish native, quickly grows.

Major cities

• New York — the largest city of the USA entering one of the largest agglomerations of the world. The population of the city makes 8 405 837 people, agglomerations — 20,63 million (an assessment for 2015). New York is located on the bank of the Atlantic Ocean in southeast part of the State of New York. The city was founded at the beginning of the XVII century by the Dutch colonists and till 1664 New Amsterdam was called.
• New York includes 5 areas (pine forest): Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and Staten-Aylend. The main sights are located in pine forest Manhattan. Among them: historical skyscrapers (Empire State Building, Chrysler Building), Rock Feller center, Woolworth building, art Metropolitan Museum, Metropolitan Opera, Museum of Solomon Guggenheim (painting), American museum of natural history (skeletons of dinosaurs and planetarium), legendary hotel "Chelsea", headquarters of the UN, Harlem.
• New York — the major world financial, political, economic and cultural center. To Los-Angela — the City of Angels) — the city in the USA in the south of the State of California which is on the bank of the Pacific Ocean. The largest on population in staff and the second — in the country (for July 1, 2009 — 3 831 868 inhabitants). The city is an administrative center of the district of the same name, and also the center of Big Los Angeles — agglomeration with the population is higher than 17 has some people.
• Los Angeles is one of the largest world cultural, scientific, economic, educational centers. Also the city — one of the largest world centers of show business in the sphere of cinema, music, television, computer games.

Flag

• The national flag of the USA known also as the Star-Spangled Banner, is an official state symbol of the USA (along with the Big press and the anthem).
• Represents a rectangular panel with the horizontal alternating equal seven red and six white strips. In a roof of dark blue color — 50 five-pointed white stars. 13 strips symbolize 13 British colonies which formed the independent state (Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, Northern Carolina, Rhode Island). Blue roofs symbolizes the Union. The number of stars in blue a roof corresponds to number of states (them 50 now). Red color represents endurance and valor; the dark blue — diligence, justice, vigilance; the white — innocence and purity. A ratio of width of a flag to its length 10:19.

Emblems

• The coat of arms of the USA or the Big press of the USA (English Great Seal of the United States) – is used to confirm authenticity of the documents issued by the government of the United States of America. The United States Secretary of State is considered the official keeper of the Big press. It is possible to see the Big press in showroom of State department in Washington.
• Face (obverse)
• Its main element is the white-headed sea eagle living only in the USA (Americans call it "a bald eagle") – a symbol of the sovereignty and power. It is also a national symbol of the USA. In one paw it keeps 13 arrows, in another an olive branch, symbolizing that the United States of America "want the world, but are always ready to war". The olive branch is traditionally represented with 13 leaves and 13 olives. The head of an eagle is turned towards an olive branch that means bigger preference to the world, but not war. The branch and arrows also mean "the power, great both in the world, and in war".