The United States of America is the fourth largest country in the world. It is bigger than the whole of Europe. There are five time zones in the USA. So, when it is twelve o'clock     in the New York, it's only eight o'clock in  Alaska. The third longest river in the world is in the USA. It's  the Mississippi-Missouri River.   The USA in the richest country in the world. It produces more food, iron, cars, aeroplanes, books, films, music and TV programmes than any other country world. The USA has a population of about 260 million people. Most of them live in cities. The largest city in the USA is New York. About  8 million people live there. The second largest city is Los Angeles in California and the third largest Chicago. There are fifty states in the United States. Some of the eastern states, like Rhode Island and Delaware, are quite small, but others, like Texas, California and alaska,are bigger than a lot of countries.Each state has got its own government and its own capital city. There is a federal capital for the whole of the USA is Washington  DC. The US President  lives there , in the White House.the flag of the USA is called '' the stars and stripes''. There is one stars fifty states . The thirteen stripes are for the original thirteen slates that formed the USA in 1776 when they got their independence from Britain. The first settlers in the USA came from Britain, but now the USA  has people from all over the world - from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.