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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 forty-eight 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 km²) and with about
306 million people, the United States is the third or fourth
largest country by total area, and third largest by land area
and by 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.[10] 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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