Noun

the United States

  1. (singular) Shortened form of the United States of America.
  2. (plural) The collection of individual states of the United States of America.
  3. (military) Includes the land area, internal waters, territorial sea, and airspace of the United States, including the following:
    • US territories, possessions, and commonwealths; and
    • Other areas over which the US Government has complete jurisdiction and control or has exclusive authority or defense responsibility

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Mon Jun 15 15:21:01 2009

The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie 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 Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories, or insular areas, in the Caribbean and Pacific.

At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with about 306 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and third largest by land area and by population. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of US $14.3 trillion (23% of the world total based on nominal GDP and almost 21% at purchasing power parity).

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 the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national economy was the world's largest. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a military power. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a founding member of NATO. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union left the United States as the sole superpower. The country accounts for approximately 50% of global military spending and is a leading economic, political, and cultural force in the world.

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Mon Jul 6 00:39:37 2009

What does the 2008 United States Presidential Election mean to the World?
Q. The 2008 United States of America presidential election will have a major impact on the world. The next Commander in Cheif and 44th President of the United States will make decisions that not only impact the United States but the entire world. In your own words, what does the 2008 United States Presidential Election mean to the world as the American People elect the 44th President of the United States of America?
Asked by Mr. Knowledgeable VI - Mon Jul 21 20:35:11 2008 - - 8 Answers - 0 Comments

A. It means we embarking on a new era of understanding and working together in stead if insisting on our way or the highway. Instead of calling everybody with whom we disagree a terrorist and drawing a line in the sand we work with diplomacy on fairness. Instead of world scorn with President Obama we will one again respect of the world we held until the war criminal GWB spit on our Constitution and thumbed his nose common decency so he and Cheney line their pockets at the expense of the hard working Americans. McCain would have been the same.
Answered by Dani - Mon Jul 21 20:51:17 2008

What percentage of the United States is Military?
Q. I would like to know this, but also know it compared to the other countries. If the United States is a "Super Power" then I would assume we also have the biggest military?
Asked by JPR - Fri Nov 28 08:42:43 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Actually if you go by the total number of troops trained for combat, Iran is the largest at over 12 million(They have a huge number of para military forces), Vietnam is second, china is third and the US is Eight. However, if you go by the total number of active troops, the US is second, slightly ahead of India. However, like some one else said, we go for quality over quantity. Infact, even China is trying to cut down the numbers and focus more of training. Here are some cool links for you... Here is a table listing the number of troops and ranking
Answered by whatup - Sat Nov 29 00:46:01 2008

Do you think the United States always will the potency number 1 in the world economically?
Q. some people said china in grow,but its difficult for china to have the same kind of live for the people,but with US bad economically do you think that in the future United States alwas will the potency of all the world? yes,no and why
Asked by 360 - Wed Nov 19 18:02:43 2008 - - 13 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Pssst... Have you heard the US isn't the only country doing bad economically.
Answered by Stl_6string - Wed Nov 19 18:06:16 2008

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By Americans

  • "America is the land of the uncommon man. It is the land where man is free to develop his genius -- and to get its just rewards."
  • "America - where even the son of a President can grow up to be President."
  • "America - a conservative country without any conservative ideology-appears now before the world a naked and arbitrary power, as, in the name of realism, its men of decision enforce their often crackpot definitions upon world reality. The second-rate mind is in command of the ponderously spoken platitude. In the liberal rhetoric, vagueness, and in the conservative mood, irrationality, are raised to principle. Public relations and the official secret, the trivializing campaign and the terrible fact clumsily accomplished, are replacing the reasoned debate of political ideas in the privately incorporated economy, the military ascendancy, and the political vacuum of modern America.