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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]
The United States is widely considered to be the leading country in the development of artificial intelligence technology. [337] [338] [339] In 2022, the United States was (after China) the country with the second-highest number of published scientific papers. [340]
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).
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]
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
The United States exercises extraterritoriality on military installations, American embassies and consulates located in foreign countries, and research centers and field camps in Antarctica. Despite exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction , these overseas locations remain under the sovereignty of the host countries (except Antarctica, where ...
The United States is a federation of 50 states, one federal district, and one incorporated territory. ... List of countries by United Nations geoscheme;
This is a list of countries and dependent territories in the Americas by population, ... United States Virgin Islands : 104,000: 0.01: 0.00: 0: May 12, 2011: