We are proud to be Americans! In honor of the United States of America, here are 10 amazing facts!
- The smallest state is Rhode Island coming in at 1,545 square miles and Alaska is the largest coming in at 663,268 square miles.
- Montana has three times as many cows as it does people.
- The original name of the city Atlanta was "Terminus".
- There are three towns in the US that are named "Santa Claus".
- The highest point in the state of Florida is only 345 feet above sea level.
- Alaska has a longer coastline than all of the other 49 U.S. states put together.
- The only place in the United States where coffee is grown commercially is in Hawaii.
- The tallest mountain in the world is located in the United States Mauna Kea, located in Hawaii
- The first American cookbook was published in Hartford, CT in 1796.
- The grizzly bear is the official state animal of California. But no grizzly bears have been seen there since 1922.
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