Geography of ... United States
... United States of America is located on ... North American continent.
... western third of ... country consists mainly of ... high plateau broken by ... numerous mountain ranges, … chief of which are ... Rocky Mountains. To ... west of this region lie ... Great Plains. This is ... region of … very flat ground extending from ... Canadian border to … Gulf of ... Mexico and eastward as far as ... Appalachian Mountains. ... Appalachians are ... range of ... low mountains and ... hills running parallel to ... Atlantic Coast and about one to two hundred miles in land.
Along ... center of ... Great Plains, flowing ... south from ... Canadian border to ... Gulf of ... Mexico is ... Mississippi River. This river together with ... Missouri which joins it from ... west and ... Ohio which joins it from ... east, forms ... central river system of ... United States. In ... north are ... five Great Lakes—... Lake Superior, ... Lake Huron, ... Lake Michigan, ... Lake Erie and ... Lake Ontario which empty into ... Atlantic Ocean through ... St. Lawrence River. ... Colorado River in ... southwest and ... Colombia in ... northwest are ... other principal rivers of ... country.
... climate of ... country is typical to ... other large continental areas in ... temperature zone. It is very warm in ... summer and in all of it except ... south is cold in ... winter. ... west, and especially ... southwest, is very dry.
... capital of ... United States Washington, D. C. is not located in any state, but lies between ... states of ... Maryland and ... Virginia. ... principal cities of ... U.S. are ... New York, ... Chicago, ... Philadelphia, ... Detroit, ... Los Angeles and ... Cleveland. ... population of ... United States is not evenly spread over ...
country, but is concentrated largely in ... east.
... heart of ... American agriculture is ... "corn-belt", ... belt of ... very fertile land extending from ...Nebraska eastwards as far as ... Pennsylvania. In this area ... principal crop is ... corn. West of ... corn-belt is ... wheat-belt extending ... north and ....south from ... Texas to ... North Dakota and into ... Canada.
... principal products of ... south are ... cotton and ... tobacco although ... corn is also grown here. ... agriculture of ... California, because of its favorable climate, is confined largely to ... special crops, such as ... citrus crops and ... grapes.
... mineral deposits of ... U.S. are concentrated largely among ... Appalachian Mountains. There are, however, ... important oil-fields in ... Texas, ... Oklahoma
and ... California, and… important iron mines in ... Minnesota. Because of ... overwhelming concentration of … minerals in ... northeastern part of ... U.S. ... manufacturing is also concentrated there.
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British Isles
... British Isles lie off ... north-west coast of ... continental Europe. They are made up of ... Great Britain
(... England, ... Scotland and ... Wales) and ... Ireland (... Northern Ireland and ... independent Irish Republic) and some 5,500 smaller islands. ... whole territory of ... British Isles is 244,000 square kilometres.
We will not find ... high mountains or ... large plains in Britain. Everything occupies ... little place. ... nature, it seems, has carefully adapted ... things—... mountains, ... plains, ... rivers, ... lakes—to ... size of ... island itself. ... mountain 12,000 feet high would be ... wonder there. So would be ... plain 400 miles long, ... river as wide and deep as ... Mississippi.
Most of ... plains lie to ... east; ... west is hilly or mountainous. ... mountains even in ... highest part of England are only ... little over 3,000 feet high. ... highest mountain in ... British Isles is ... Ben Nevis in ...
Scotland, 4,406 feet high. ... longest river is ... Severn, about 2000 miles long. ... highest waterfall is 370 feet high.
Too often ... visitor who has only ... few days to spend sees only ... Lowland England, and so he cannot see ... contrasts between ... wild fiords of ... Scotland, ... rocks of ... North Wales, ... smiling orchardland of ... Kent, and ... open moorland of ... Sutherland. These contrasts are often not far from ... big cities.
... climate of ... British Isles is influenced by ... Atlantic Ocean.
... winters are not so cold as they can be on ... continent, but ... summers are not so warm as they usually are on ... other side of ... Channel. In ... other words, ... Great Britain has ... mild climate, but because of ... length of ... British Isles ... temperatures differ from ... district to ... district.
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... North is certainly colder than ... South, but in ... winter ... coldest districts are ... eastern ones. ... climate here is more like that in ... Central Europe. On … whole ... weather changes very often and there are … few sunny days. Britain has ... rain in every month of year. ... rainiest months in Britain are ... November, … January and ... February. Usually there is ... little snow in ... winter.
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