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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.
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.
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.
New England is a subregion of the northeastern U.S. that is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Canada, and the state of New York.It includes six states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South) is one of the four census regions defined by the United States Census Bureau.
The United States of Colombia (Spanish: Estados Unidos de Colombia) was the name adopted in 1863 [2] [3] by the Constitución de Rionegro for the Granadine Confederation, after years of civil war. Colombia became a federal state itself composed of nine "sovereign states.”
Northern Mexico (Spanish: el Norte de México IPA: [el ˈnoɾte ðe ˈmexiko] ⓘ), commonly referred as El Norte, is an informal term for the northern cultural and geographical area in Mexico.
A Mexican State (Spanish: Estado), officially the Free and Sovereign State (Spanish: Estado libre y soberano), is a constituent federative entity of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico.