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Travel Spotlight — Stay Put!
Put down that Palau travel brochure and take a look around...the good old USA has so much to offer! This month we are traveling in our own backyard and there is much to see and do from coast to coast. Get your Gulf Coast groove on, visit Mount Rushmore, or maybe hike the Appalachian Trail, you are only constrained by your vehicle cruising range and imagination.
Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65), in which a northern Union of states defeated a secessionist Confederacy of 11 southern slave states, and the Great Depression of the 1930s, an economic downturn during which about a quarter of the labor force lost its jobs. Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation state.
Fun Facts about the United States:
- Area-total: 9,826,630 sq km or 3,794,083.1 sq miles (note: includes only the 50 states and District of Columbia)
- Area-comparative: about half the size of Russia; about three-tenths the size of Africa; about half the size of South America (or slightly larger than Brazil); slightly larger than China; more than twice the size of the European Union
- Lowest Point: Death Valley -86 m
- Highest Point: Mount McKinley 6,198 m
- Population: 303,824,640 (July 2008 est.)
- Time Zone: UTC-5 (during Standard Time) note: the 50 United States cover six time zones
- Geographic Coordinates: 38 00 N, 97 00 W
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