Estados Unidos

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United States United States or U.S. States is a federal constitutional republic comprising 50 states and one federal district. Most of the country is locatedin central North America, where its 48 states and Washington D. C., the district capital, between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state ofAlaska is in the northwest of the continent, bordered by Canada to the east and west separated from Russia by the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is a Polynesian archipelago in the middle of thePacific Ocean, and is the only U.S. state that is not in America. The country also has several territories in the Caribbean and the Pacific. With 9.83 million square kilometers and more than 308million inhabitants, is the third or fourth largest country by total area and third largest by land area both as population. It is one of the nations of the world's most ethnically diverse andmulticultural, the product of large-scale immigration.

The thirteen original states were the successors of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule. Shortly after independence, three new stateswere created from existing ones: Kentucky from Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Maine from Massachusetts. Most other states were created from territory obtained through war or purchase by thegovernment. Vermont, Texas and Hawaii are the exception: each was an independent republic before joining the Union. During the Civil War, West Virginia separated from Virginia. The latest state isHawaii, which achieved recognition as a state on August 21, 1959. The states have no right to secede from the Union. The states make up a large part of U.S. territory, the other two areas that areconsidered part of the country is the District of Columbia, the federal district where the capital Washington D. C., and Palmyra Atoll, an uninhabited but incorporated territory located in the Pacific...