Five parts of the city are situated on islands and peninsulas. This city is not only one of the largest cities all over the world but at the same it is also the large Chinese, Polish, Irish, Jewish or Italian city – the native country of many nations. Washington D.C., the capital of the USA, is the most important city of the country and the most favorite place for foreign visitors. Many of them want to see with their own eyes where the history of the present its taking its place, the places which they watch on television day by day. Washington D.C., the masterpiece of the European architect, is the symbol of the USA. It was created on the green meadow. It is the first capital of the nation built as the capital. It was projected so broad-mindedly to grow with the people and its wealth. This city built with the historical foresight of an architect is drowning in the reflectors of the attention of the world. Power is its purport of work. Washington D.C.is at the same time the well-known cultural metropolis. The names of the Atlantic seaside area of the US form a number of names with new as the first word – New York, New England, New Jersey, New Hampshire. Nowadays, this part of the country together with the area of the Great Canadian Lakes hardly only remind the virgin nature three centuries ago. The tens of millions of the immigrants passed this part of America, the melting pot formed there which made them the Americans. This part is connected with the history of America as well as with history of the immigration. Not only the largest urban agglomerations as New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Boston are typical for this new land but also the picturesque nooks form the true tourist paradise, typical American little houses made of wood. There is also the densest network of highways, there is also the largest store of oil in the US as well as the biggest railway junction in the world. In the area of the Great Canadian Lakes every seventh American lives there nowadays, The lakes with many splendid beaches on the coastline long 9000 miles are nowadays the symbol of the fight for nature-saving. This is the region well-known thanks to the miracle of nature called the Niagara Falls as well as thanks to the industrial centers. The South and the South-East of the US, the country known by its cotton and later oil and racism, where Martin Luther King, the leader of black people, murdered in 1969, became one of the most dynamically developing part of the country.