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CAPITAL: Washington, DC
TIME: GMT-5 to GMT-10
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; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
CALLING CODE: +1
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION: North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico
ENTRY REQUIREMENT: Under the US Visa Waiver Program, many British Citizens holding a UK passport do not require a US visa providing. All travellers must complete and present an I-94W form to the US Customs & Border Protection at the first point of entry into the USA (these forms are available at check-in or on the aircraft) and otherwise be eligible for a visa. However, please note that the I-94W form is now also available online. USA entry procedures have changed and UK travellers to the USA under the Visa Waiver Scheme must now complete the I-94W form online using the Electronic System for Travel Authorisation (ESTA) system - for more details.
PEOPLE: white 79.96%, black 12.85%, Asian 4.43%, Amerindian and Alaska native 0.97%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.18%, two or more races 1.61%
RELIGION: Protestant 51.3%, Roman Catholic 23.9%, Mormon 1.7%, other Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.7%, Buddhist 0.7%, Muslim 0.6%, other or unspecified 2.5%, unaffiliated 12.1%, none 4%
LANGUAGES: English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7%
GOVERNMENT: Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition
CURRENCY: United State Dollar |
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