Noun

the United States

  1. (singular) Shortened form of the United States of America.
  2. (plural) The collection of individual states of the United States of America.
  3. (military) Includes the land area, internal waters, territorial sea, and airspace of the United States, including the following:
    • US territories, possessions, and commonwealths; and
    • Other areas over which the US Government has complete jurisdiction and control or has exclusive authority or defense responsibility

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The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories, or insular areas, in the Caribbean and Pacific.

At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km) and with about 307 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by land area and population. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of US $14.3 trillion (23% of the world total based on nominal GDP and almost 21% at purchasing power parity).

The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence. The Philadelphia Convention adopted the current United States Constitution on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791.

In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national economy was the world's largest. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a military power. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a founding member of NATO. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union left the United States as the sole superpower. The country accounts for approximately 50% of global military spending and is a leading economic, political and cultural force in the world.

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What state in the united states has the highest iron content?
Q. I was thinking of the united states and started wondering which state had the highest iron content in their soil...Arizona has alot of red mountains but I wasn't sure if there was a state that had a higher count...Also if anyone would happen to know which spot on in the world had the highest content of all?
Asked by Sara A - Mon Oct 8 15:04:58 2007 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Minnesota mines produce the most iron, followed by Michigan. World wide Brazil produces the most iron, followed by Australia.
Answered by Doc E - Thu Oct 11 12:37:20 2007

How is the United States depicted in the media in other countries?
Q. I am curious to know how the United States and Americans are depicted in the news, movies, television, and other aspects of the media.
Asked by Holly - Tue Apr 10 13:18:59 2007 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Sort of like Darth Vader and the marauding Empire with SUVs not Star Destroyers
Answered by meanpressure0 - Tue Apr 10 13:26:34 2007

What percent of the United States live a longer life playing sports as a child?
Q. I need to know what percent of the United States live a longer, healthier life playing sports as a child [around 6th grade]. Also if you play sports as a child [6th grade] what can it do for your future. I am doing a class project and really need no lies or guesses so if you could PLEASE give me a web page where you found it please write it for me and I will pick you as best answer.
Asked by Volleyballbabe7 - Tue May 6 23:29:39 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Do your own research. THe internet is a tool. Use it.
Answered by Crowdpleaser - Fri May 9 14:58:17 2008

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By Americans

  • "America is the land of the uncommon man. It is the land where man is free to develop his genius -- and to get its just rewards."
  • "America - where even the son of a President can grow up to be President."
  • "America - a conservative country without any conservative ideology-appears now before the world a naked and arbitrary power, as, in the name of realism, its men of decision enforce their often crackpot definitions upon world reality. The second-rate mind is in command of the ponderously spoken platitude. In the liberal rhetoric, vagueness, and in the conservative mood, irrationality, are raised to principle. Public relations and the official secret, the trivializing campaign and the terrible fact clumsily accomplished, are replacing the reasoned debate of political ideas in the privately incorporated economy, the military ascendancy, and the political vacuum of modern America.