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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.
Animated map of the territorial evolution of the United States US Census Bureau map depicting territorial acquisitions, 2007 After Japan's defeat in World War II, the Japanese-ruled Northern Mariana Islands came under control of the United States.
A National Atlas map from 2002 National Atlas map (from circa 2005) depicting historical United States territorial acquisitions. The National Atlas of the United States was an atlas published by the United States Department of the Interior from 1874 to 1997.
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.
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.
The United States of America is a federal republic of 50 states, a federal district and 14 territories.It is located mostly in central North America.The U.S. has three land borders, two with Canada and one with Mexico, and has sea borders with Cuba, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Bermuda and Russia, and is otherwise bounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea, the Arctic Ocean and the ...
The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.