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In Esperanto, the United States is known as "Usono," with the adjective form for American being "Usona." These constructions borrow the first letters of the English words United States of North America, while changing the final "a" to an "o" for the noun form in conformance with the rules of Esperanto grammar.
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
People from the United States of America are known as and refer to themselves as Americans. Different languages use different terms for citizens of the United States. All forms of English refer to US citizens as Americans, a term deriving from the United States of America, the country's official name. In the English context, it came to refer to ...
This is a list of demonyms used to designate the citizens of specific states, federal district, and territories of the United States of America. Official English-language demonyms are established by the United States Government Publishing Office (USGPO); [1] however, many other terms are in common use.
United States of China, once advocated before the unification of China by Chiang Kai-shek; United States of Europe, a political concept of a single European state; United States of Africa, a political concept similar to the United States of Europe; United States of South America, a proposed federation in South America or Latin America
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.
United States of America—a federal republic in North America founded in 1776 and comprising 50 states (one of which, Hawaii, is not considered to be located in North America) and one federal district (the District of Columbia), with several outlying territories of varying affiliation; commonly referred to as the U.S. or simply America.
5 "United States" being used as an adjective. 6 Lets just call USA related stuff COLUMBIAN and cause real confusion. 7 Summary of old talk. 4 comments.