United States of America

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The United States of America (often shortened to the United States, USA, U.S. or colloquially America) is a country of the western hemisphere, comprising fifty states and numerous outlying territories. Forty-eight contiguous states lie in central North America between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bound on land by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south; Alaska is in the northwest of the continent with Canada to its east, and Hawaii is in the mid-Pacific.