КАК ЧИТАЕТСЯ?: The USA is the world's fourth largest country. Only Russian, Canada and China have bigger territories than the USA. There are fifty states in the country. Forty eight are in the north, and Hawaii situated on eight islands in the Pacific.
The USA stretches from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, which wash the country in the West and in the East. Long mountain chains run down the Pacific coast. In this part of the country is Death Valley, the lowest place in North and South Americas. Here, too is the Grand Canyon which the Colorado River made millions years ago. In some places it is about 6 km deep. The tall peaks of the Rocky Mountains rum from Canada to Mexico. Beyond them there stretch the Great Plains where the mighty Mississippi River flows. Another mountain chain, the Appalachians, runs does the eastern part of the USA. The USA borders on Canada in the north, where the five Great Lakes are situated and Mexico in the South.