The United States of America презентация

FLAG
The flag of the United States of America,
often referred to as the American flag, is
the national flag of the United States.
It consists of thirteen equal horizontal
stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with
white, with a blue rectangle in the canton
(referred to specifically as the "union") bearing fifty small,
white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where
rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternate with rows of five stars.
Nicknames for the flag include the Stars and Stripes, Old Glory, and the Star-Spangled Banner.

The United States of America is a big country in North America, often referred to as the "USA," the "U.S.," the "United States," America.
The population of the USA more than 300 million people.
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The first inhabitants of North America migrated from Siberia by way of the Bering land bridge and arrived at least 15,000 years ago, though increasing evidence suggests an even earlier arrival.
After crossing the land bridge, the first Americans moved southward, either along the Pacific coast or through an interior ice-free corridor between the Cordilleran and Laurentide ice sheets.
TOTAL AREA AND POPULATION

The Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from the people of France, conceived and designed as a monument to a great international friendship.
SIGHTS

Grand canyon
One of the deepest canyons in the world.
SIGHTS

Originating in U.S. defense networks, the Internet spread to international academic networks, and then to the public in the 1990s, greatly affecting the global economy, society, and culture.
Government policy designed to promote affordable housing,[206] widespread failures in corporate and regulatory governance,[207] and historically low interest rates set by the Federal Reserve[208] led to the mid-2000s housing bubble, which culminated with the 2008 financial crisis, the largest economic contraction in the nation's history since the Great Depression.
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