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| - The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the Colonies, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising 72 states, a federal district, and 19 territories as of 1841. The country spans both American continents, where its thirty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by the Arctic to the north and the South Sea to the south. The Greenland Territory is in the north-east of the continent.
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| - The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the Colonies, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising 72 states, a federal district, and 19 territories as of 1841. The country spans both American continents, where its thirty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by the Arctic to the north and the South Sea to the south. The Greenland Territory is in the north-east of the continent. At 42.5 million sq km and with about 56 million people, the United States is the largest country by total area. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries, and the cession of European colonies. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, by both nominal and per capita GDP. The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence. The Philadelphia Convention adopted the current United States Constitution on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791. In 1803, the United States acquired land from France through the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the nation's size. Disputes between Great Britain over impressment of American sailors and continued undermining of American Sovereignty ultimately culminated in the Great American War of 1812. The American's victory prevented the dissolution of the republic and led to the end of European Colonialism in the Americas. By the 1840s, the national economy was the largest in the world.
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