Hawaii is the 50th state in the USA; it became a state on August 21, 1959. It consists of a long chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean. The name for residents is Hawaiians.The state abbreviation is HI. The capital is Honolulu, that’s the largest city. In Hawaii there lives 1,211,537 people, and the area is 10, 932 square miles [Hawaii is the 43rd biggest state in the USA].The major industries are tourism, agriculture (bananas, pineapples, macadamia nuts and taro
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, on August 4, 1961 (the 44th President).Major rivers in Hawaii are Wailuku River Anahulu River. The Major Lake is Salt Lake.The highest point is Mauna Kea .The state Nickname is the Aloha State.The humpback whale is a baleen whale and the national mammal of Hawaii. It sings amazing songs and performs complex and cooperative feeding techniques. The humpback has a bulky head with bumpy protuberances (tubercles), each with a bristle. Humpbacks are acrobats of the ocean. They live in pods and have 2 blowholes. The name humpback describes the motion it makes as it arches its back out of the water in preparation for a dive.
