
United States*
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.
Population: 302,667,000 (3rd)
Area: 9,826,630 km˛ (3rd)
/ 3,793,079 sq mi
Additional Information
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