POPULATION OF THE USA AND THE UK Population of the USA

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The population of the United States is the third largest in the world (after India and China). There are over 250 million people living in the United States today. Who are these people? The famous American poet of the 19^th century Walt Whitman said that the United States "is not merely a nation, but a nation of nations". People from around the world have come to the United States and influenced its history and culture.

Population of the UK

The population of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is nearly 59 million people. The population lives mostly in towns and cities and their suburbs. Four out of every five people live in towns.

The distribution of the population is rather uneven. Over 48.8 million people live in England, over 3 million in Wales, a little over 5 million in Scotland and about 1.5 million in Northern Ireland.

Greater London, the south and the southeast are the most densely populated areas. London's population is nearly 7 mil-Гоп. Most of the mountainous parts of the UK including much _of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Pennine Chain in northern England are very sparsely populated.

The UK is inhabited by the English, the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish who constitute the British nation. The British are the descendants of different people who settled in the British Isles at Different times.

The earliest known people of Britain were of Iberian origin. Then followed a long succession of invaders including the Celts, the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Danes and at last in 1066 the Normans. It was the last time Britain was invaded.

Now there are also many people of all colours and races in the UK. These are mostly former inhabitants of the former British colonies. These people, called 'the coloureds', came to the UK in search of better living standards.

English is the official language of the UK. Besides standard literary English there are many regional and social dialects. A well-known example is the cockney of East Londoners. The Scottish and Irish forms of Gaelic survive in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.

Wales is officially bilingual, Welsh is spoken by about a fifth of its population. Welsh is the first language in most of the western countries of Wales and least formally has the same status as English. Nowadays there is a growing movement in Wales and Scotland for a revival of national culture and languages.

VOCABULARY

population- тұрғылықты халқы

in the world-элемде

century-ғасыр

nation-ұл

culture-мәдениет

Roman-католик, румындық

Celt-кельт

Dane-даттық, даниялық

Norman-нормаңцық

inhabitant-тұрғын

cockney-кокни

Londoner-лондондық

Scottish-шотландық

gaelic-гэльдік тіл

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MULTINATIONAL KAZAKHSTAN

The population of Kazakhstan more than 16 million peop My country is a multinational state. More than one hundred tionalities live here.

Census figures taken in 1995 put Kazakhstan's populati at 16,5 million with an annual growth rate of 0,62%. The со try's principal ethnic groups include Kazakh 44%, Russian 36°) Ukrainian 5%, German 4%, Uzbek and Tatar 2%, Belarassii and Azerbaijani 1% and other 5%.

The urban-rural distinction is almost evenly divided wi 57% of the population living in urban areas.