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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 .
A physiographical map of the contiguous 48 states of the U.S. and indicating the age of the exposed surface and the type of terrain An aerial photo over northern Ohio; much of the central United States is covered by relatively flat, arable land. Within the continental U.S. there are eight distinct physiographic divisions.
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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.
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]
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, [3] [4] [5] are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] When viewed as a single continent, the Americas or America is the 2nd largest continent right after Asia, and is the 3rd largest continent by population.
Usage on eml.wikipedia.org Stat Unî; Usage on fur.wikipedia.org Stâts Unîts di Americhe; Usage on hif.wikipedia.org United States of America; Usage on hi.wikipedia.org अमेरिकी राज्य; Usage on id.wikipedia.org Negara bagian di Amerika Serikat; Usage on ilo.wikipedia.org Estado ti Estados Unidos; Usage on it.wikipedia.org
Map of the United States with state and territory names 1681 map of North America Antebellum map of the United States, published by Sidney E. Morse in An Atlas of the United States (1823), showing the recent acquisition of Missouri and Louisiana, and the remnant of the Northwest Territory after the establishment of Ohio, Indiana and Missouri