UNITED STATES
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic made up of fifty states, one federal district, and several territories.
The country is situated largely in the western hemisphere: its forty-eight contiguous states and the District of Columbia (coextensive with Washington, the capital) 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.
U.S. territories, or insular areas, are scattered around the Caribbean and Pacific.
At over 3.7 million square miles (over 9.6 million kmē) and with more than 300 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and third largest by land area and population.
The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard.
The colonies issued the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776; Britain, defeated in the American Revolutionary War, recognized U.S. sovereignty in 1783.
The current United States Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787.
Ten amendments composing the Bill of Rights were ratified in 1791, followed by seventeen additional amendments.
The country greatly expanded throughout the nineteenth century, acquiring territory from France, Spain, Mexico, and Russia, while annexing the Republic of Texas and the former Kingdom of Hawaii.
By the turn of the twentieth century, the United States was a major world power.
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