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e 1. Uniti USA GERMANY Area (in sq. km) Population Cities with over 1 million people 9.3 million 255 million 357,000 80 million Did you know that New York time is six hours behind German time? When it is six in the evening here, it is lunchtime in New York. And there are several time zones in the USA. The West Coast is three hours behind the East Coast — -¦ N > Look at the map and compare the times in different places. When it's Sam in Denver, it's in Washington, D.C. When it's in New York, it's ' Now imagine you work in an office. You want to phone people in Atlanta, St Louis, Dallas, Denver and San Francisco. When must you phone from Germany if you want to talk to them at 10am their time? The United States is a huge country. It consists of 50 states. The state of Texas alone is bigger than France. Montana is about the same size as Germany, but has a population of less than 900,000. From the border with Canada in the north to the border with Mexico in the south, it is 2,500 kilometres. From the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, it is 4,500 kilometres - that is the distance from Frankfurt to Teheran. A train takes 45 hours to cross the country, while a plane can ily from coast to coast in 5 hours. But if you want to make the trip by car, you will need about a week. If you put a map of the USA over a map of Europe, how many countries will it cover? Ex 1-3 Compare the size of the USA and Germany: r Typical temperatures in some American cities: (in degrees Celsius) Jan July, Chicago -4° 23° Denver -5° 19° Miami 19° 28° New Orleans 13° 28° ¦ New York 1° 24° San Francisco 7° 16° V JL