The Federated States of Columbia (also called the Federated States, the F.S., the FSC, Columbia, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising forty-four states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central America and northern South America, where its forty-two contiguous states and Bogotá., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by California, Mohave and Arkana to the north and Argentina to the south. The state of Queensland is in the northeast of the Australian continent, with Australia surrounding its land border. The state of Galapagos is an archipelago in the Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.