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USA
LOS ANGELES
• Los Angeles is the biggest city in California and the second largest in the USA.
• It is the centre of the American music and film industries.
• The climate is pleasant all year round and the beaches are always full of people.
The Rockies
• The Rockies is a mountain range that stretches from British Colombia in Canada to New Mexico in the USA.
• This is a distance of nearly 5000 km.• It has some of the best skiing resorts in
America. • People also go hiking here.
THE GREAT PLAINS
• The Great Plains is an enormous area to the east of the Rocky Mountains.
• This used to be homeland of the Great Plains indian tribes.
• There were many buffaloes here before the Europeans came.
• Nowadays a lot of wheat is grown on the Great Plains.
CHIHUAHUAN DESERT
• There are deserts in several parts of the United States.
• The largest is the Chihuahuan Desert in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.
• There are some Indian reservations in the desert.
FLORIDA
• The swamps and marshes of Florida are wetland areas.
• There are up to a million American alligators here.
GRAND CANYON
• The grand Canyon is 446 km long, 1,6 km deep and up to 29 km wide.
• Millions of tourists visit it every year.• The river in the canyon is very popular with
rafters.
WYOMING
• Wyoming is known as “ The Cowboy State”. • They have raised cattle here for more than
hundred years. • Many people wear blue jeans , boots and
Stetson hats in Wyoming.
MEXICANS
• Large areas of the south western part of the USA used to belong to Mexico.
• This is one reason why there are many people of Mexican origin in southern California.
INUITS
• About 16 per cent of the Alaskan population are native Inuits.
• Some of them still make a living in the traditional way by hunting and fishing.
• However , most people in Alaska now live in cities.
• In the old days they used to wear clothes made of sealskin and caribou skin.
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