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USA, U.S., United States of America, country located in North America

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The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) 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 the 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 in the Pacific and Caribbean.

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Noun
1. North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
(synonym) United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.
(hypernym) North American country, North American nation
(hyponym) Union, North
(member-holonym) North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
(part-holonym) North America
(member-meronym) American
(part-meronym) East, eastern United States
(class) federal department, federal office, department of the federal government
(class) freshman, first-year
2. the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States
(synonym) United States government, U.S. government, US Government, U.S.
(hypernym) federal government
(member-meronym) executive branch, Executive Office of the President


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Background
Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. The two most traumatic experiences in the nation's history were the Civil War (1861-65) and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in 1991, the US remains the world's most powerful nation state. The economy is marked by steady growth, low unemployment and inflation, and rapid advances in technology.

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