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Clickable map of Canada exhibiting its ten provinces and three territories, and their capitals.
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
Drawn and adapted by E Pluribus Anthony from Atlas of Canada Edited by en:User:Heqs / en:User:Cogito ergo sumo to show disputed nature of Canada's marine international boundary claims; see en:Canada-United_States_border#Remaining_boundary_disputes ; further edited by Bosonic dressing to reflect agreed maritime boundary between Canada and ...
Canada is a country in North America.Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's second-largest country by total area, with the world's longest coastline.
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Charting North America, maps and atlases in the New York Public Library Digital Collection; Online digitized versions of many 18th- and 19th-century American atlases, as well as the 1897 Rand McNally Indexed Atlas of the World and many other maps, can be found at DavidRumsey.com. Hipkiss' Scanned Old Maps from Atlases and any old books with ...
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.
La Villa Real de la Santa Fé de San Francisco de Asís Santa Fe: 1692: Capital of the Spanish Virreinato de la Nueva España province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México. 1821: Capital of the Mexican province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México. 1824: Capital of the Mexican territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México. 1846: Capital of the U.S. military ...