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Niagara Falls
is the collective name for three waterfalls
that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States;
more specifically, between the province of Ontario and the state of New York. Located
on the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined
falls form the highest flow rate of any waterfall in the world, with a vertical
drop of more than 165 feet. Source
The Tongass National
Forest in southeastern Alaska is the largest national
forest in the United States at 17 million acres. Most of its area is part
of the temperate rain forest WWF ecoregion, itself part of the larger Pacific
temperate rain forest WWF ecoregion, and is remote enough to be home to many
species of endangered and rare flora and fauna. The Tongass, which is managed
by the United States Forest Service. Source
Hawaii is the 50th and most recent U.S. state to join the United States. It joined the Union on August 21, 1959. It is the only U.S. state located in Oceania and the only one made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is the 8th smallest, the 11th least populous, but the 13th most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. Hawaii's ocean coastline is about 750 miles long, which is fourth in the United States after those of Alaska, Florida and California. Source
