United States, officially United States of America,
abbreviated U.S. or U.S.A., byname America, country in North America, a federal
republic of 50 states. Besides the 48 conterminous states that occupy the
middle latitudes of the continent, the United States includes the state of
Alaska, at the northwestern extreme of North America, and the island state of
Hawaii, in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The conterminous states are bounded on the
north by Canada, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Gulf of
Mexico and Mexico, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. The United States is
the fourth largest country in the world in area (after Russia, Canada, and
China). The national capital is Washington, which is coextensive with the
District of Columbia, the federal capital region created in 1790. The major
characteristic of the United States is probably its great variety. Its physical
environment ranges from the Arctic to the subtropical, from the moist rain
forest to the arid desert, from the rugged mountain peak to the flat prairie.
Although the total population of the United States is large by world standards,
its overall population density is relatively low. The country embraces some of
the world’s largest urban concentrations as well as some of the most extensive
areas that are almost devoid of habitation. The United States contains a highly
diverse population. Unlike a country such as China that largely incorporated
indigenous peoples, the United States has a diversity that to a great degree has
come from an immense and sustained global immigration. Probably no other
country has a wider range of racial, ethnic, and cultural types than does the
United States. In addition to the presence of surviving Native Americans
(including American Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos) and the descendants of
Africans taken as enslaved persons to the New World, the national character has
been enriched, tested, and constantly redefined by the tens of millions of
immigrants who by and large have come to America hoping for greater social,
political, and economic opportunities than they had in the places they left.
(It should be noted that although the terms “America” and “Americans” are often
used as synonyms for the United States and its citizens, respectively, they are
also used in a broader sense for North, South, and Central America collectively
and their citizens.)
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