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A large number of places in the U.S were named after places in England largely as a result of English settlers and explorers of the Thirteen Colonies. Some names were carried over directly and are found throughout the country (such as Manchester , Birmingham and Rochester ).
The United States ambassador to the United Kingdom, formally the ambassador of the United States of America to the Court of St James's [1] is the official representative of the president of the United States and the American government to the monarch (Court of St. James's) and government of the United Kingdom. [2]
However, the ISO list of the subdivisions of the United Kingdom, compiled by British Standards and the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics, uses "country" to describe England, Scotland, and Wales. [12] Northern Ireland, in contrast, is described as a "province" in the same lists. [12]
1815 – Commercial treaty with Great Britain – Established free trade between the United States, England, and much of the British Empire (Ireland was among the areas excluded) [13] [14] [15] 1817 – Rush–Bagot Treaty – The United States and Great Britain agree to demilitarize the Great Lakes.
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 accounts for the United Kingdom's largest single export market, buying $57 billion worth of British goods in 2007. [234] Total trade of imports and exports between the United Kingdom and the United States amounted to the sum of $107.2 billion in 2007. [235]
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used ... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.
As a republic, the United States was not entitled to receive an ambassador. Instead, the United Kingdom dispatched a diplomat with the lower rank of minister plenipotentiary. This placed the United Kingdom on equal footing with France, which also maintained a minister plenipotentiary in the United States. [4]: 1 1791–1795: George Hammond