Population

Inhabitants: 290 million
Languages, dialects, religions, minorities, majority etc: America is a "salad bowl" of cultures. It is only in America that one can be Italian-American, Irish-American, Spanish-American, African-American and so on. In almost all major cities you will find cultural communities forming a city within a city; such as Chinatown, little Italy, El Bario etc. There is no official national language, but English is the accepted un-official national language. In some areas in the big cities, however, it is hard to find signs and writings in anything but Spanish or Chinese. The major religions are Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Judaism and a growing eastern-influenced spiritualism particularily in the West and East. Hence, the "salad bowl" of American culture is specially particular since the American culture is made up of all cultures and prides itself on it. It will be impossible to not blend in and feel as if you do not belong here, since American people tend to be very friendly and open to all cultures and people.
Student Population
Number of students: total population of school enrollment: over 69 million with an expected growth of between 85 and 150,000 every year.
Number of foreign students: over 514,000
Student origin: Canada, various countries in Europe, Mexico, Turkey, (over 54% from Asia)China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, India and over 150 other countries
Country Capital: Washington DC. Population: 543,213 (1996).
Major Cities: Nineteen other cities have a population larger than that of Washington, DC. New York is the largest city, with a population of over twenty million. Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, San Diego, Phoenix and Dallas have estimated populations in the millions.
Main university cities : Boston, New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Berkeley, San Francisco, Standford, Los Angeles …