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[1] [3] In an advanced version of the game, players were also required to name the populations of the cities and towns they landed on, and the game also offered trivia about each locality. [3] [5] The winner was the first player to reach New Orleans. [1] Travellers' Tour was also the first board game based on a map of the United States.
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 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 cartography of the United States is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the United States. Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776 , during the ...
A trichrome map-coloring game in progress, on a map of the United States. On their turn, a player may choose any of the three colors to shade an unshaded state, so long as it would not share a color with a bordering state. Three states have become unshadeable, being surrounded by all three colors.
Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America is an educational game for up to four players, designed to help students with United States geography. The main character is an alien that leaves the mothership to hover in his UFO far above the map of U.S. as he flies around the country.
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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]