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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.
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Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions and dependent territories overseen by the federal government of the United States.The American territories differ from the U.S. states and Indian reservations in that they are not sovereign entities.
The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, the Atlantic Coast, and the Atlantic Seaboard, is the region encompassing the coastline where the Eastern United States meets the Atlantic Ocean; it has always played an major socioeconomic role in the development of the United States.
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.
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A map showing the contiguous United States and (in insets at the lower left) the two states that are not contiguous Map highlighting Alaska and Hawaii's geographical relationship to the contiguous United States.
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sovereignty with the federal government.