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  1. The United Nations headquarters has been situated along the East River in Midtown Manhattan since 1952; in 1945, the United States was a founding member of the UN. The United States has an established structure of foreign relations, and it has the world's second-largest diplomatic corps as of 2024.

  2. The United States of America ( U.S.A. or USA ), commonly known as the United States ( U.S., US or the States ), or simply America, is a sovereign country mostly in North America. It is divided into 50 states. Forty-eight of these states and the District of Columbia border each other between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

  3. List of U.S. states. This article lists the 50 states of the United States. It also lists their populations, the date they became a state or agreed to the United States Declaration of Independence, their total area, land area, water area, and the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives.

  4. A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from this map. This article is part of a series on.

  5. The US has the 2nd largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 11,351,000 km 2 (4,383,000 sq mi). By total area ( water as well as land), the United States is either slightly larger or smaller than the People's Republic of China, making it the world's third or fourth-largest country.

  6. In 1776, in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress declared the independence of the colonies as the "United States of America". Led by General George Washington, it won the Revolutionary War in 1783. The Treaty of Paris established the borders of the new sovereign state.

  7. The United States of America is a federal republic of 50 states, a federal district, and a number of other territories.It is located mostly in central North America.The U.S. has three land borders, two with Canada and one with Mexico, and has sea borders with Cuba, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Bermuda and Russia, and is otherwise bounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea, the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.