United States of America Business Guide

Country Profile

General Information

Learn general information about the US.

Capital City

Washington, DC

Head of State

Barack Obama, President - elected to 4 year term commencing January

2009.

Population

306,433,000 - Figures indicated by "UN estimate" are based on the July 1,

2009 estimate by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social
Affairs – Population Division

Demographic Structure

Current total U.S. population (284,800,000) is from the U.S. Census

Bureau, and is based on current growth rates applied to the 2000 Census
figures.

Total

population % of

population

Total population 281,421,906 100.0%

White 211,460,626 75.1

Black or African American 34,658,190 12.3

American Indian and Alaska Native 2,475,956 0.9

Asian 10,242,998 3.6

Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander 398,835 0.1%

Some other race 15,359,073 5.5

Two or more races 6,826,228 2.4

Hispanic or Latino 35,305,818 12.5

Surface Area

Surface Area: 3,537,441 square miles

Regions

A geographic area consisting of several States defined by the U.S.

Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. The States are grouped
into four regions and nine divisions:

Northeast:

* New England - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,

Rhode Island, and Vermont

* Middle Atlantic - New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania

Midwest:

* East North Central - Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin

* West North Central - Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,

North Dakota, and South Dakota
 South:

* South Atlantic - Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia

East:

* South Central - Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee

* West South Central - Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas

West

* Mountain - Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,

Utah, and Wyoming

* Pacific - Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington.

Languages

Political System

The United States government is comprised of three branches, the

executive, legislative and judicial. The legislative branch is bicameral with
a House of Representative and Senate drafting, proposing and creating
laws. The President is the head of the executive branch and is charged
with enforcing the law and defending the nation. The president and the
vice-president are elected every four years in a general election. The
Supreme Court is the final authority in the judicial branch. There are nine
Justices who sit on the Supreme Court, they are appointed by the
president and confirmed by the Senate. Each is appointed for life. Seats
on the Supreme Court only become available when a Justice retires or
dies.

Since the civil war, American politics has been largely dominated by two
parties: the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Republican
Party is more conservative and the Democratic Party more liberal. Both
parties have diverse support from a wide range of social and economic
forces. Both parties a primarily funded by business interests.
The United States is a member of NATO, OAS, the United Nations and is a
permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations. The US
has nuclear weapons.

Climate

Mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska,

semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the
Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest
are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook
winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

Natural hazards: tsunamis, volcanoes, and earthquake activity around

Pacific Basin; hurricanes along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts;
tornadoes in the midwest and southeast; mud slides in California; forest
fires in the west; flooding; permafrost in northern Alaska, a major
impediment to development.

Terrain: vast central plain, mountains in west, hills and low mountains in
east; rugged mountains and broad river valleys in Alaska; rugged, volcanic
topography in Hawaii.

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