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Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - United States has an extensive online collection of scanned historical maps of the US, and a list of other map sites.; Charting North America, maps and atlases in the New York Public Library Digital Collection
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.
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]
An orthographic projection of the United States. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the United States: . United States of America – federal republic located primarily in North America, and the world's third-largest country by both land and total area.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:34, 6 June 2019: 5,510 × 3,949 (22.67 MB): Michael Barera == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Map |title = ''Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico….'' |description = {{en|On May 21, 1828, less than a month after the new agreement between the U.S. and Mexico, the New York publishing firm of White, Gallaher and White issued this Spanish-language ...
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.
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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.