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AMERICAN CITIES

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Maturitní otázka: AMERICAN CITIES

AMERICAN CITIES

WASHINGTON D.C.

  • the USA capital

  • D.C. = district o Columbia

  • population - 681,170 citizen

  • area - 177 km2

  • location – on the Potomac river in the mid-Atlantic region of the U. S. East Coast

    • bordered by Montgomery, Prince George´s Country, Arlington, Alexandria, Virginia

  • the centers of all three branches of the federal government of the United States - including the Congress, President, and Supreme Court

history

  • first Eropeans visit – the early 17th century (inhabited by various tribes of the Piscataway people)

  • 1790 – congress passed the Residence Act – approved capital on the Potomac river

    • two pre-existing settlements in the territory – Georgetown, Alexandria

demographics

  • nearly 48% Black or African Americans

  • nearly 45% White

  • 4% Asian

  • 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native

places of interest

  • National Mall – a park 1mile long – connects The Capitol and the Washington Monument

  • US Capitol – the seat of American Congress

  • The White House – the seat of the US president

  • Washington Monument – 169 meters high obelisk in the National Mall

  • Lincoln Memorial

  • Jefferson Memorial

  • Pentagon – the seat of the Ministry of Defence

CITY OF NEW YORK

  • the largest and the most populous city

  • population – 8,537,673 citien

  • area – 784 km2

  • location – the southern tip of the state of New York on the Hudson river

    • the center of the New York metropolitan area = one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world

    • situated on one of the world´s largest natral harbors

  • five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan (the most famous borough – Soho, Broadway, scysrapers), The Bronx, Staten Island

  • the most linguistically diverse city in the world (about 800 languages)

history

  • Algonquian tribes of Native Americans

  • first European visit – 1524 (in service of the French crown)

  • 1609 – an English explorer rediscovered the New York Harbor

places of interest

  • Manhattan – scyscrapers

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art – the most famous musem in New York

  • Times Square – crossroad between Broadway and the 7th Avenue

  • Central Park – in the middle-upper Manhattan; several lakes and ponds, Central Park Zoo etc.

  • Empire State Building – the most famous scyscraper in New York

  • One World Trade Center – the most expensive office tower in the world

  • The State of Liberty

LOS ANGELES

  • in California

  • population – nearly 4 million citizen

  • the second most populous city in the United States

  • history – founded by Spanish governon

places of interest

  • Hollywood

  • the biggest zoo in the world

  • Walt Disney Concert Hall

CHICAGO

  • in Illinois – the Midwestern United States

  • population – about 2.5 citien; the thirt most populous city in the U. S.

  • near the Great Lakes

  • history – founded in 1780s by a French settler

  • situated on the Chicago river

  • „City in a Garden“ – a large number of parks

  • John Hancock Center

SAN FRANCISCO

  • California

  • considered as a one of the most beatiful cities in the world

  • Golden Gate

  • large China town – the largest settlement outside Asia

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