Economy of the USA

The United States is the country of highly developed economy. Heavy industry includes such brunches as mining, metallurgical engineering and chemical industries. Detroit is a large motor-car industry centre. Shipbuilding is developed along the Atlantic coast and in Sam Francisco on the Pacific coast. Textile industry is also well-developed, especially in the South near large cotton plantations.
Agriculture is very widespread, above all in the prairie regions, where wheat and other grain crops are grown. Cotton is grown in the Mississipi Valley, tobacco in Maryland and Virginia. California is famous for its fruit plantations, and the West – for its cattle-farming. Poultry-farming is wide-spread in the country side near all big cities.
Manufacturing is an important economic activity in the US. In spite of the presence of items manufactured outside the country, domestic industry remains paramount, and it is rare for any medium-sized US town to be without at least some local employment in manufacturing.
The northeastern United States, excluding northern New England, is the country’s single most significant region of manufacturing. This region is loosely defined on three sides by the Ohio River Valley, Megapolis, and the Southern Great Lakes.
In spite of the region’s moderate extent and the grouth of manufacturing elsewhere, the Manufacturing Core continues to be of tremendous economic significance in American geography. Its factories produce most of the country’s steel, as well as a significant percentage of its motor vehicles and motor vehicles parts. Most of the important ports, the main entres of communication, and the primary financial centres are within or near the region, and the country’s political capital being on the immediate margins. The region includes the two largest clusters of coalescing metropolitan areas: Megapolis, and the group of large urban regions between Milwaukee (Wisconsin) and Chicago (Illinois) on the west, and Cleveland (Ohio) and Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) on the east.
Most of the important ports, the main centre of communication, and the primary financial centres are within or near the region, and the country’s political capital being on the immediate margins.
The interior portion of America’s Manufacturing Core is known to possess great accessibility resources. Connecting the mineral-rich Canadian Shield and the fuel-rich interior plains, the five Great Lakes – Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario – represent an internal waterway unlike any other in the world.
So this unique combination of spatial and mineral resources and technological changes that affected the manufacturing geography of the US encouraged the growth of heavy manufacturing industries and all of the related human activities that have come to dominate here.