The United States Of

America (USA)
 The United States of America (also referred to as the United States,
the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic
comprising fifty states and a federal district.

 The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its

forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district
, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to
the north and Mexico to the south.

 At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 308
million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country
by total area, and the third largest both by land area and population.
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 USA - Language, Culture, Customs and Etiquette
 Location: North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean
and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico

Capital: Washington, DC

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.

Ethnic Make-up: white 81.7%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%,

Amerindian and Alaska native 1%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific
islander 0.2% (2003 est.) 

Religions: Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%,

Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 est.)
 Language in the USA:
The United States does not have an official language, but English is
spoken by about 82%
 American Society and Culture:
 Diversity:peoples from around the world came to USA for jobs
 Informal and Friendly:America is ultimately a nation of
immigrants and as a result is a cultural mish-mash in every sense of
the word
 Time is Money:People 'save' time and 'spend' time as if it were
money in the bank
 The Family:The family unit is generally considered the nuclear
family, and is typically small
 Business Dress: people in the East dress more formally, while
people in the West are known for being a bit more casual.
 Government
the United States have democratic forms of
government.

Government: Constitution-based federal republic

Population:
World Rank: 3
Population: 311,971,000
 Economy of the United States
 
 Rank 1st (nominal)
 
 Currency United States Dollar (USD)
 
 Fiscal year October 1 – September 30 Statistics
 
 GDP
 GDP growth 3.0% (2010 est.)

 GDP per capita

 $46,442 (2009)[1] (nominal; 17th)
 $46,442 (2009)[1] (PPP; 6th)

 GDP by sector agriculture: (1.2%), industry: (21.9%), services: (76.9%) (2009

est.)
Inflation (CPI) 1.1% (November 09-10)[2]

Population
below poverty line 14.3% (2009)[3]

Gini index 45 (List of countries)

Labor force 154.5 million (includes unemployed) (2009 est.)

Labor force
by occupation
farming, forestry, and fishing: 0.7% manufacturing, extraction,
transportation, and crafts: 20.3% managerial, professional, and
technical: 37.3% sales and office: 24.2% other services: 17.6%
note: figures exclude the unemployed (2009)

Unemployment 9.4% (January 2011 est.)

 Main industries
 petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace,
telecommunications, chemicals, creative industries, electronics,
food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining, defense
 
 Ease of Doing Business Rank 5th
 
 External Exports
 $1.057 trillion (2009 est.)
 
 Export goods agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn)
9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital
goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers,
telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods
(automobiles, medicines) 15.0% (2009)
 Main export partners
 Canada, 13.2%; Mexico, 8.3%; China, 4.3%; Japan, 3.3%.
(2009)[6]

 Imports $1.558 trillion c.i.f. (2009 est.)

 Import goods agricultural products 4.9%, industrial

supplies 32.9% (crude oil 8.2%), capital goods 30.4%
(computers, telecommunications equipment, motor vehicle
parts, office machines, electric power machinery),
consumer goods 31.8% (automobiles, clothing, medicines,
furniture, toys) (2009)
 
 Main import partners China, 15.4%; Canada, 11.6%;
Mexico, 9.1%; Japan, 4.9%; Germany, 3.7%. (2009)[6]
 Capital : Washington, D.C.

Largest city: New York City

Official language(s) None at federal level: National language English (de

facto)

American Government: Federal presidential constitutional republic

President : Barack Obama (D), Vice President: Joe Biden

Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain

Declared July 4, 1776 

Area  -  Total 9,826,675 km2

 Trade of USA
Type Stock exchange
Location New York City, United States
Founded February 4, 1971
Owner The NASDAQ OMX Group
Key people Robert Greifeld(CEO)
Currency United States dollar
No. of listings 2,872
MarketCap US$3.88 trillion (Dec 2010)[
Volume US$954 billion (Nov 2010)

NASDAQ Composite
Indexes NASDAQ-100
NASDAQ Biotechnology Index
 Sports In USA
 Sports in the United States is an important
part of American culture. The four most
popular team sports are ones that developed
in North America: baseball, American
football, basketball and ice hockey
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