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United States of America Flags

Flag Colors and Description

Known as Old Glory, the flag of the United States of America is made of 13 equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white. A blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bears 50 small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternating with rows of five stars. The 50 stars represent the 50 states; the 13 stripes represent the 13 original colonies.

People

Population: 298,444,215 (July 2006 estimate)

Population Growth Rate: 0.91% (2006 estimate)

Spoken Languages: English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census)

Government

Abbreviation: US or USA

Government Type: Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition

Capital: Washington, DC (capital)

Economics

GDP (Gross Domestic Product): $12.98 trillion (2006 estimate)

GDP per capita: $43,500 (2006 estimate)