Question

Read the chart in Appendix 1, page 189 for basic information about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United States of America and the Russian

Answer 1

1 The capital of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is London.
2 The capital of the United States of America is Washington.
3 The capital of the Russian Federation is Moscow.
4 The population of Great Britain is 59 million.
5 Nations including the Russian, the Tatar, the Ukrainian, the Chuvash, the Bashkir, the Belarussian, the Mordva and others are part of the Russian Federation. We call the Russian Federation a multinational country because it has many nations. We can also call the United States of America a multinational state because people from different parts of the world live there.
6 The largest cities of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Belfast, Newcastle and Cardiff.
7 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is divided into four parts: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United States of America is divided into 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Russian Federation is divided into 21 republics, 6 territories (krai), 49 provinces (region, oblast'), 10 autonomous areas (okrug) and 1 autonomous region (as of October 2004).
8 The Russian Federation is the greatest in area. It is 17 million sq km.
9 The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland borders Ireland and by sea France, the Netherlands, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries. The United States of America borders Canada and Mexico and Russia by sea. The Russian Federation borders China, Mongolia. Korea, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Norway, Finland, the Baltic States, Belarussia, the Ukraine and the USA by sea.
10 The United States of America has the highest mountain (Mount McKinley, which is 6,194 m), the longest river (the Mississippi, which is 6,019 km) and the largest lake (Lake Superior, which is 83,270 sq km). The Russian Federation has the largest salt-water lake in the world (the Caspian Sea, which is 371.000 sq km), the deepest lake in the world (Lake Baikal, which is 1,620 m deep).
11 According to the population and the area/territory the Russian Federation and the United States of America are much larger in size than the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
12 The greatest in size is the Russian Federation but the greatest in population is the United States of America. The size of the country not always reflects the size of the population. We have come to a conclusion that some territories of the Russian Federation are hard to live in.