HAWAII

Hawaii is a group of Polynesian islands and it is located around 3200 km from the West Coast, in the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is the fiftieth state of USA with 1.2 million people. This archipelago was uninhabited for a long time. The first residents were Polynesians, which settled colonize about 1500 years ago.

Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island has been remembered since World War II. The Pacific fleet has been attacked by Japan on December 7, in 1941. Hawaii became the last and youngest US state in 1959.
Hawaii can boast of quite a few superlatives. An average annual rainfall of 1170cm. Lanai island is home of the largest pineapple plantation in the world.

The Hawaiian islands are definitely a tourist and nature lovers’ paradise. Most tourists come to Oahu, mainly to the capital, Honolulu and its famous Waikiki Beach. The Maui Island is also famous for its natural beauty and outdoor sports: windsurfing, diving, sailing and so on.
The funny detail of Hawaii is that the Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters: EIOUHKLMNPW. “Aloha” means both “hello” and “goodbye”.