United States
For other uses of terms redirecting here, see
US (disambiguation),
USA (disambiguation), and
United States (disambiguation) The United States of America is a
federal constitutional republic comprising
fifty states and a
federal district. The country is situated almost entirely in the
western hemisphere: its forty-eight
contiguous states and
Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie in central North America 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 the state of
Hawaii is in the mid-Pacific. The United States also possesses
fourteen territories, or
insular areas, that are scattered around the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Estados Unidos (mpl)
n.
the United States, United States, America, USA
Estados Unidos (mpl)
n.
United States, country located in North America, USA
Estados Unidos, los
= US, US, the [U.S.], United States, the
Ex: BLAISE-LINK provides access to files in the biomedical and toxicological areas, which are available on the computer of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), US. Ex: This influence has not been restricted to the US. Ex: The Library of Congress Subject Headings List was first published in 1909 and it is used widely across the United States.