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 The State of Oregon
• The area of the state of Oregon is 255,026 km2 (9th place in the USA)
• The length of the state of Oregon: from north to south - 420 km; from
east to west - 580 km;
• The capital of Oregon is Salem;
• Date of formation of the state of Oregon - February 14, 1859 (33 in the
USA)
The population of Oregon is about 3,870,000 people (27th place in the
USA)
Alis volat propriis ("Flying on wings")

(The motto of the state of Oregon)

The nickname of the state of Oregon is "The Beaver State"

Nature
• There are several main physical geographical regions in the state: the
Cascade Mountains, the Coastal Range and the Ocean Coast, the
Klamath Mountains (Siskaya), the Willamette Valley, the Columbia
Plateau, the Blue Mountains and the High Desert.
• One well-known and popular Oregon Nature Reserve, the only
National Park in the state, founded back in 1902 (the sixth of all US
National Parks), is located in the south of the state in the area of
Mount Mazama. This is the Crater Lake National Park, famous for its
transparency and blue water.
 The State of Washington
• officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest
region of the Western United States. Named for George Washington—
the first U.S. president—the state was formed from the western part of
the Washington Territory.
• The state—which is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean,
Oregon to the south, Idaho to the east, and the Canadian province of
British Columbia to the north. The capital of state is Olympia and
largest state’s city is Seattle.
• Washington is the 18th-largest state, with an area of 184,830 km2 and
the 13th-most populous state, with more than 7.7 million people.

• The main part of the state consists of deep temperate rainforests in the
west; mountain ranges in the west, northeast, and far southeast; and
south given over to intensive agriculture. Washington is the second
most populous state on the West Coast and in the Western United
States, after California
 The State of California
• California is a US state located on the west coast of the county, on the s
hores of the Pacific Ocean. It borders the U.S. states of Oregon (to the n
orth), Nevada (to the east) and Arizona (to the southeast)
• California is the most populous US state and the 3rd largest by area (aft
er Alaska and Texas). The capital is Sacramento, the largest city is Los
Angeles.
 the motto is Eureka 
• The most important sectors of the state's economy are information
technology, the aerospace industry, oil production, show business, and
agriculture.
• California is an earthquake-prone zone, many geological faults pass
through the state, the most famous of which is San Andreas. There are
also several volcanoes on the territory of California, including the
dormant volcano Lassen Peak, which erupted in 1914 and 1921.
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