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United States of America

Formerly a British colony, now United States (hereinafter "USA") are considered the most powerful country in the world. Being the fourth in the world in area and the third in number of citizens with over 300 million citizens living on area bigger than India or Brazil. There are 49 states that are in the North America with the 50th laying in the Pacific ocean. That gives us 50 states plus Washington D.C., which is not a state but separate district. It is that way because Washington is the capital of the USA.

USA is a federal republic. And even there is one central government, there is a great deal of decentralization. That was proved by recent permission to smoke marijuana in only two states and yet it being prohibited by the federal law.

There is also power divided into three parts. Executive, legislative and judicial. Legislative power is in hands of the Congress, executive in hands of the President and judicial is in hands of Supreme court.

There are lot of "must see" places in the USA because they are so large. If I should exclude NYC as a separate question I must mention Las Vegas as a paradise for gamblers, Los Angeles as a birth place of most of the great movies (Hollywood) and many others like Chicago, San Francisco or San Diego. I could just spit on you the names of the cities and I think that you can say that you know almost all of them.

There are Rocky mountains on the west and Appalachian mountains on the east. Those are two greatest mountain ranges in USA. Then there should be mentioned Yellowstone park, Death Valley, Grand Canyon. From the rivers Colorado river, Rio Grande (forming part of the US-Mexican border), Mississippi river or Houston river. I could just mention Niagara falls and you should think of Great Lakes. There are so many things that I can't possibly include them all.

Like I could talk about Czech Republic on and on I can talk about USA as well. About economics and politics problems, about cultural clashes between Hispanics and nowadays habitants. For all I know I could sing you the anthem of the marines :D (or at least the first part)

Czech r[(be)e(r)]public

Czech republic

Czech republic is a country you can find dwelling in the Central Europe. Czech rep. is not a part of the Eastern Europe as many believe and we strictly differ ourselves from them. We have common borders with Germany to the west, with Austria and Slovakia to the south and Poland to the east. Czech rep. (hereinafter "CR") consists of 10 million habitants living on almost 80 thousand square kilometres area. In Prague, the capital of CR, live over 1 million citizens. Prague is the largest city by far, when you consider that the second largest city, Brno, has something over 300 thousand habitants. CR is divided into 14 regions, these has certain level of independence, yet only on the region's level.

The political power is divided into three parts as in almost every country in the west. Legislative, executive and judicial power.Legislative power is in the hands of Parliament, composing of Senate and Chamber of Deputies, the president and the government holds the executive power. Judicial power is in the hand of Supreme court. Only one court has more power and that's the Constitutional court, which decides if law passed by the Parliament are not in conflict with the Constitution.

CR is rich in history. Before Slavic people came, there had been the Celts and even before them some pre-historical human settlements. You can find a lot of places of interest all over the CR. Some examples that I could talk about some more are Karlštejn, Český Krumlov, Olomouc or Říp and of course many more. The history is not the only thing that we can draw attention with. We have also few cities famous for their spas like Karlovy Vary, Mariánské lázně or Františkovi lázně. In addition to this, we have greatest beer and loads of beer festivals and even more breweries. People for whom the nature is the main thing to visit, we also can offer few mountain ranges like Krkonoše or Orlické hory and some beautiful National parks and Protected landscape areas.

I could talk on and on about economy (import/export), cultural habits or other things but that would take a long time to finish...