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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]
Image:Blank US Map with borders.svg, a blank states maps with borders. Image:BlankMap-USA.png, a map with no borders and states separated by transparency. Image:US map - geographic.png, a geographical map. On Wikimedia Commons, a free online media resource: commons:Category:Maps of the United States, the category for all maps with subcategories.
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United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency data; World Data Base II data; Author: NordNordWest: Other versions: File:USA location map - counties - no water.svg; File:USA location map - counties.svg; Derivative works of this file: Bank of America footprint.png; CRW flight map.svg; FirstCitizensBancShares footprint.png; MSY flight map.svg
The term "United States," when used in the geographic sense, refers to the contiguous United States (sometimes referred to as the Lower 48, including the District of Columbia not as a state), Alaska, Hawaii, the five insular territories of Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and minor outlying possessions. [1]
Enlargeable U.S. map with state and territory high points shown as red dots and low points as green squares except where low point is a shoreline. Enlargeable map of the 50 U.S. states by mean elevation. This list includes the topographic elevations of each of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. [1]
Blank map of the USA: Date: 10 September 2006: Source: Modified from Image:Map of USA with state names.svg: Author: Original author User:Wapcaplet, modified by Angr: Permission (Reusing this file) Multilicensed under GFDL and CC-BY-SA: Other versions: Derivative works of this file: Map of States with State Defense Forces.png; Official Dog ...
In 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit upheld the District Court decision in Segovia v. United States, which ruled that former Illinois residents living in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands did not qualify to cast overseas ballots according to their last registered address on the U.S. mainland. [150]