domingo, 11 de mayo de 2008

Australia

United Kingdom





The United States of America it is a country placed in his almost totality in North America, also he understands of a state in Oceania. This one shaped by 50 states and a federal district. Also it has several dependent territories located in the Antilles and in Oceania. His form of government is that of a republic presidencialista and federal.

Government and policy



The United States is a constitutional, presidential and federal republic. His government has a few limited power enumerated in the Constitution of the United States. His form of government is known as democracy presidencialista because there is a president. The election of the president is indirect across umpires or big electors. The power of the president reach not only the headquarters of the State, but also the executive power and the capacity of veto of some decisions of the legislative power.

Geography


The geography of the continental area is eventful in the western zone, where the Rocky Mountains are placed. In the zone North-East they find the Appalachians and in the region southwest Mexican Mother begins the Saw.In the northern part, the continental states share border with Canada, and Alaska, with the Arctic Ocean; in the southern part they border on Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico; in the eastern part one finds the Atlantic Ocean, and in the western part, the Pacific Ocean.

Economy




The economy of the United States is the most powerful of the world. One organizes of principally capitalist form, with very little governmental control in the industries. The United States has rich mineral resources with extensive deposits of gold, oil, coal, and uranium. The agricultural industries are the principal producers of the country of maize, wheat, sugar, and tobacco, between other producers.

Demography


On October 17, 2006, the Office of Censuses of the United States was estimating the population of the country in 300.000.000. This number included 12 million illegal immigrants.

Religion


The government of The United States does not guard an official record of the religions in the country. Nevertheless, in a private survey carried out in 2001, 76,7 % of the adult Americans identified to yes same like Christian.

Australia, it is a country located in the south hemisphere, which occupies almost everything the continental part of Oceania, the smallest continent of the world, besides several islands in the oceans Pacific Ocean, Indian and Antarctic.

Population


Total population: 20.090.437

States and territories.






Australia is divided in six states, two continental territories and other minor territories. The states are New South Wales, Queensland, Southern Australia, Tasmania, Victory and Western Australia. Both continental territories are the Territory of the North and the Territory of the Australian Capital.

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Climate



Australia is the driest inhabited and flat country, and the one that possesses fewer fertile soils. Only in the south-east and southwest a moderate climate exists. The north part of the country, with a tropical climate, has a vegetation that consists principally of rainy jungles, forests, meadows, swamps and deserts. The climate is very influenced by tropical seasonal systems of low pressure that produce cyclones in the north region, and for the marine currents, including the oceanic - atmospheric phenomenon of The Child, who is correlated by periodic droughts.

Flora and fauna




Though great part of Australia is desert or semiarid, a great diversity of habitats exists in her, from Alpine heaths to rainy tropical jungles. Due to the great age of the continent, small fertility of his soils, his different extremely changeable climates and his long isolation of the rest of the continents, the Australian biota is the only and diverse.


Demography



Most of approximately 21 millions of Australians are descendants of immigrants who came to the country during the XIXth and XXth century, for the most part from Great Britain and Ireland. The population of Australia is cuadriplicado from the end of the First World war, stimulated by an ambitious program of immigration.

Religion


Australia does not have official religion and his constitution guarantees the freedom of worships.