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, and colloquially as America, is a country in North America (excluding overseas territories), extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and sharing land borders with Canada and Mexico. The United States is a federal constitutional republic, with its capital in Washington, D.C. It consists of fifty individual states and a number of outlying territories and other federally administered areas.

At over 3.7 million square miles (over 9.6 million km²), the United States is the third largest country by total area, with most of its territory in central North America while Alaska (the largest state in area) is in the northwest of the continent and Hawaii is in the mid-Pacific. It is the world's third most populous nation, with over 300 million people. With a gross domestic product (GDP) of over $13 trillion, the U.S. has the largest national economy in the world. GDP per capita ranks first among the larger economies of the world, and third or eighth overall, depending on the measurement. The product of large-scale historical immigration and home to a complex social structure as well as a wide array of household arrangements, the U.S. is one of the most ethnically and socially diverse nations on the planet.

The nation was founded by thirteen colonies that declared their independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776, and were recognized by France and other European powers in 1778. The United States has existed continuously as a united, sovereign, national state since it adopted the Articles of Confederation, on March 1, 1781. The nation's form of government was significantly altered when it adopted the current constitution on September 17, 1787. American military, economic, cultural, and political influence increased through the 19th and 20th centuries. With the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War, the U.S. emerged as the world's sole remaining superpower, greatly influencing world affairs, as it continues to do today.

Etymology

Common names and abbreviations of the United States of America include the United States, the U.S., the U.S.A., the USA, the U.S. of A., the States (informal), and America. The earliest known use of the name America is attributed to the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller who, while working in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in 1507, created a globe and a large map showing North and South America. Although the origin of the name is uncertain, the most widely held belief is that expressed in an accompanying book, Cosmographiae Introductio, which explains it as the feminine version of the Latin name of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci (Americus Vespucius); in Latin, the other continents' names were all feminine. Vespucci theorized, correctly, that Christopher Columbus, on reaching islands in the Caribbean Sea in 1492, had come not to India but to a "New World".

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