The United States of America spans almost the entire North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, ranking fourth in the world after Russian, Canadian and China. The territory also includes Alaska at the edge of the Arctic and Hawaii in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. The native land is 4,500 kilometers long from east to west, 2,700 kilometers wide from north to south and 22,680 kilometers long in coastline.

The United States borders the Pacific Ocean in the west, the Atlantic Ocean in the east, the Gulf of Mexico in the south, Canada in the north and Mexico in the southwest. Alaska borders on the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean; Hawaii is located near the Tropic of Cancer in the Pacific Ocean; The United States is located in the Western Hemisphere, which consists of the mainland of the United States, Alaska and Hawaii.

The United States includes 48 neighboring countries in North America; Alaska is the northernmost peninsula in North America. Hawaii is an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. In addition, there are territories such as Puerto Rico in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean.

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America is a famous immigrant country: there are white people, black people and yellow people, and there are a large number of immigrants. The United States is the third most populous country in the world; The terrain is columnar in north and south, with plateaus and mountains (Rocky Mountains) in the west, vast central plains in the middle and low mountains (Appalachian Mountains) in the east.

The plain area accounts for more than half of the total area of the country, and the cultivated land is vast; The climate in the United States is dominated by temperate continental climate, which has the characteristics of diversity. The high temperature period of temperate continental climate is consistent with the rainy period, and the annual precipitation in the United States decreases from southeast to northwest.