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United States of America

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Capital City: Washington DC

People: white 81.7%, black 12.9%, Asian 4.2%, Asian and Alaska native 1%, native Hawaiian and other Pacific islander 0.2%

Religion: Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Mormon 2%, Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10%

Language: English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7%

Currency: US Dollar

Electrical Voltage: 120 volts

How to get there: Airplanes, Trains, and Boats

Weather: 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

Travel Documentation and Custom Duty: Check with your nearest US Embassy

Getting Around: Bus, Train, Car Rental, Airplanes
 
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