The
face of every city is different. Washington
D.C.
The United
States of America is the fourth largest
country in the world, after Russia,
Canada
and China.
It occupies the southern part of North America,
and includes Alaska.
The USA is made up
of 50 states, and the District of
Columbia, a special federal area where the capitol of
the country is situated.
If we
look at the map of the USA,
we can see lowlands and mountains. The highest mountains are the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra
Nevada. The highest peak is Mount McKinley
which is located in Alaska.
The United States
is a land of rivers and lakes. The largest and deepest lakes in the USA are the
five Great Lakes on the border with Canada. America’s
largest rivers are the Mississippi,
the Missouri,
the Rio Grande
and the Columbia.
The Mississippi
is the word’s third longest river after the Nile
and the Amazon. The climate of the country varies greatly. The climate of Alaska is arctic. The
climate of the central part is continental. The south has subtropical climate.
The
history of the country is rather long. Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain across
the Atlantic Ocean. Instead of reaching India
as he had expected he landed on an island off a continent unknown to Europeans,
but he thought that he was in India.
In
the southern states white farmers used black slaves to work on their huge
plantations. When slavery was stopped in the North the southern states left the
Union and formed the Confederacy. Civil war
between the North and the South started. The Union
won and the slavery was abolished all over the USA.
Nowadays,
the USA
is highly developed industrial country.
There
are many important cities in the USA, for example New York, one of the largest
cities in the world, a great seaport and financial center, Chicago near the
Great Lakes, one of the biggest industrial cities in the USA, and the second
largest after New York. Boston
is one of the first cities which were built on the Atlantic coast of America. Now it
is a big cultural centre with three universities. Los Angeles is a centre of modern industries
and show business. Other big and important cities of the USA are Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, Detroit, Washington
and so on.
Washington D.C. is the capitol of US. It is
situated in the District of Columbia
and is like no other city in America.
it’s the world’s largest one-industry city. And that industry is government.
The White House, where the US
president lives and works, the Capitol, the home of the US congress,
and the Supreme Court, are all in Washington.
The city was so named in memory of
George Washington, the first president of the USA, known for the active
participation in the war with Britain.
A special district was created for the city – the District of Columbia. The city was laid out
according to be a capitol. Washington
is one of the most magnificent and unusual cities in the USA. In the
centre of it rises the huge dome of the Capitol
– a big white dome standing in a circle of pillars. It’s rather easy to get
lost in this huge building, full of paintings and statues.
Not
far from the Capitol is the library of
Congress, the largest in US. It contains more than 13 million books, more
than 19 million manuscripts, including the personal papers of the American
presidents.
The
official residence of the USA
president is White House. It has 132 rooms, among them the Oval Office where
the president works. The White House used to be a president residence since it
first occupied by President John Adams in 1800.
One
can hardly find a park, a square or an open area in Washington without a monument or a memorial,
the Jefferson Memorial was built in
honor of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and
the third president of the USA.
Inside his statue, and his writings are inscribed on the walls. The Lincoln Memorial reminds everybody of
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth American president who’s noted for the slavery
destruction. There’s a statue of Abraham Lincoln inside the memorial. At the National Air and Space Museum visitors can see the history of flight from
the first airplane to the Apollo spaceship. The National Gallery of Art, a large museum of painting, sculpture and
other arts is also situated in the capitol.
From
the beginning of the twentieth century the USA became the world’s leading
country. Thousands of tourists visit Washington
every day. People from all parts of the US come to see their capitol, and
also people all over the world. Washington
greets tourists with the Cherry Blossom festival every spring. The pink and
white blossoms of the Japanese cherry these near the Washington Monument
create a magnificent delicate picture, and you are to visit Washington just to see it, and then all
beauties of other cities will seem to you gloomy.
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The
face of every city is different. Washington
D.C.
The United
States of America is the fourth largest
country in the world, after Russia,
Canada
and China.
It occupies the southern part of North America,
and includes Alaska.
The USA is