The United States is a very large country. It has many different kinds of landscapes and different kinds of people.In the East, the countryside is green and fresh. Here are some of the first states and some of the big cities. New York and the capital, Washington D.C., are in the East.In the South, there is the beautiful city of New Orleans, the capital of jazz. It is sometimes hot here, and the people here are very different from those in the East.The Central Plains of the United States are fertile with big fields of wheat and corn.In the South-West it is often hot and dry. But the deserts and mountains are beautiful. And California, on the West Coast, is famous as a “paradise” state.The weather in the Mid-West, near the Great Lakes, is often cold and windy, and there is a lot of snow in winter.In the South-West it is often hot and moist.