United States: Top 10 Quick Facts

Hello, welcome to the United States!

U.S. motto "In God we Trust"

• The United States is located south of Canada and north of Mexico, in northern America.

United States (photo credit: commons.wikimedia.org)

• The Flag consists of Red, White and Blue colors. The blue square at the top left contains 50 stars representing the 50 states. There are 13 in total horizontal red and white stripes representing the first 13 U.S. colonies.

U.S. Flag

• Washington D.C. is the capital with a population of over 700,000 people.

• Another city in the U.S. is Chicago in the state of Illinois with over 2,700,000 people. 

• The United States has no official language. The most spoken languages are English, Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese), French, and many others. It's like they say, its a 'melting pot' of cultures and languages.

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• The national animal: American Bison

• The national tree: The Oak Tree
  

Big Oak (photo credit: commons.wikimedia.org)

• For the traditional clothing of the United States, I wanted to go with the Natives of the land, not later on when settlers took over.

Native American

• The U.S. does not have an official sport, but what takes the spot is Baseball.

Baseball

• And, anybody's favorite: Food.

Clam Chowder

Cheeseburger

Hot Dogs

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