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General Information

The United States of America  is afederal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, whereits forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans,bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The stateof Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country alsopossesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.

Celebrations

* New Year's Day (January 1)

* Martin Luther King Day (Third Monday in January)

* Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (February 12)* Presidents' Day (Third Monday in February)

* George Washington's Birthday (February 22)

* Arbor Day (In April or close to April 22 or on that day)

* Mother's Day (SecondSunday in May)

* Memorial Day(Last Monday in May)

* Flag Day (June 14)

* Father's Day (Third Sunday in June)

* Independence Day (July 4)

* Labor Day (First Monday inSeptember)

* Columbus Day (Second Monday in October)

* Veterans' Day (November 11)

* Thanksgiving Day (Fourth Thursday in November)

* Christmas Day (December 25)

CulturesThe culture of the United States is a Western culture originally influenced by European cultures. It has been developing since long before the United States became a country with its own unique social andcultural characteristics such as dialect, music, arts, social habits, cuisine, and folklore. Today, the United States of America is an ethnically and racially diverse country as a result of large-scaleimmigration from many different countries throughout its history.

Its chief early influences came from English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish settlers of colonial America. British culture, due...