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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.
A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from the map. The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states ...
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 ...
British and other Commonwealth English use the ending -logue while American English commonly uses the ending -log for words like analog (ue), catalog (ue), dialog (ue), homolog (ue), etc., etymologically derived from Greek -λόγος -logos ("one who speaks (in a certain manner)").
The circuit started along the waterfront just south of the Jardin Albert I, then headed westward along the Promenade des Anglais followed by a hairpin turn at the Hotel Negresco to come back eastward and around the Jardin Albert I before heading again east along the beach on the Quai des Etats-Unis. [28]
Coastline: 19,924 km (12,380 mi) Population of the United States: 308,745,538 (2010 census) – 3rd most populous country. Area of the United States: 9,826,630 km2(3,794,080 sq mi) – 4th most extensive country. Atlas of the United States. Cities of the United States, by population. Environment of the United States.
Etats-Unis (French for 'United States') was a restaurant in New York City. The restaurant had received a Michelin star, before closing. See also. List of Michelin ...
Denomination. 16 August 1881. The Place des États-Unis ( French: [plas dez‿e.taz‿y.ni]; "United States Square") is a public space in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France, about 500 m (1,600 ft) south of the Place de l'Étoile and the Arc de Triomphe . It consists of a plaza, approximately 140 m (460 ft) long and 30 m (98 ft) wide, tree ...