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The United States is are varied land – of forests ,deserts, mountains, high flat lands. A fast railroad train, travelling 96 km an hour, takes more than 48 hours to cross the country. A jet plane crosses the continental United States from east to west in about five hours.

Alaska borders on northwestern Canada; Hawaii lies in the Pacific 3,200 km from the mainland. Alaska is the largest in area of all the 50 states and Texas, in the southern part of the country, is second in size. Texas alone is larger than France, and Alaska is twice as big as Texas. The center of the country is drained by the Mississippi-Missouri Rivers and their branches. The Mississippi is one of the world’s great rivers. The are other important rivers – The Yukon in Alaska, the Rio Grande