Hawaii or Hawaiian Islands

Hawaii or Hawaiian Islands

Hawaii is an American state in the form of an archipelago of islands in the Pacific Ocean with an area of ​​166 642 km. According to population statistics for the year 2000, the population of Hawaii is 1211537 inhabitants. Honolulu is the capital and largest city, Hawaii consists of 19 main island.

Hawaii is the last States that have joined the American Association, and with the state, which sets it apart from many others. In addition to its occupation to an end last in the American South, in the sense that no other state is located south, it is the only state that lies entirely in the tropics. As one of the states which are located outside the territorial contiguity of the United States (the other state is Alaska), are the only ones that do not have no lands belonging to any continent is the only one that increases an area constantly because of volcanic activity and lava flow, and in particular on the island of Kilao Kīlauea. Scania, is the only American state where there is no majority of whites as it is one of only three which does not constitute a non-white ethnic South and Central America and the majority of the high percentage of Asian Americans.

Environmentally and agriculturally, Hawaii is considered the capital of endangered species in the world and is the only place where the coffee industry is considered part of the industrial production in the USA. It is also the most important agricultural products are Hawaii pineapple, banana, sugar cane and coconut.

Discovered by Captain James Cook in 1778 and remained affiliated to the British crown a long time, and was at that time under the rule of four kings of local, managed Queen of Alyukalaty consolidated into one kingdom, and was hoping to join the United States, but the United States rejected the idea of ​​annexation in the first instance, then announced by the Republic in 1884 by the Americans did their residents, and in 1898 Congress voted in favor of annexation of Hawaii, and became part of the United States, formed the state of Hawaii in 1900.

Earth

Hawaii consists of (23) Island, the largest of the Hawaiian Islands, and Maui and Oahu and its capital, and Malakas, but I am, and Niehau, and Kaholawi and land is tops chains volcanic mountain soaked, the oldest of the western edge of this group island, abound with volcanoes, rises some peaks to more from 13 thousand feet on the island of Hawaii, where Maonallowa summit, a summit of renewed volcanic eruption erupted.

Climate

A tropical island, but it varies from region to region depending on the location and terrain system and the direction of the wind, abundant rainfall and falling most days of the year with the intensity of rainfall in the months of November and April.

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