The United States guide
Everything you need to know about the United States, all in one place
The United States is a federal union of fifty states that write their own laws, so the country changes at a state line about as much as it does at a mountain range. Learn the shape of it across those fifty states and the capital district, the facts that make daily life legible from Boston to Honolulu, the first hundred words of Navajo, Hawaiian or Cherokee, and the civics questions an applicant for citizenship has to answer.
United States · Facts
Read it, then make it stick
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Geography of the United States
From the Appalachians to the Rockies, explore the mountains, plains and coasts that connect the Atlantic and Pacific. Alaska and Hawaii take the landscape into the Arctic and the tropics.
United States · Maps
Know the shape of the country
Three maps of the United States itself, drawn from the same files the rounds are played on. The fifty states and the District of Columbia are the frame everything else sits in; the cities and the rivers, lakes and seas that put most of them where they are go inside it.
Pick a map. It opens and plays right here.
United States · Citizenship test
Study for the United States’ citizenship test
Unit 1 of 13
The Constitution
The supreme law: what it does, who it speaks for, and how it gets changed.
United States · Words
Take Navajo with you
Lesson 1 of 10
Greetings and politeness
Hello, thanks, please: the ten openers everything else builds on.