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The United States is a North American country, including Alaska (northwest of Canada) and the Hawaii islands (in the North Pacific). The name of the country is United States of America.

The United States is bordered to the north by Canada, to the East by The Atlantic Ocean, to the South by the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico, and to the West by the Pacific Ocean. Federal Republic of fifty states and one federal district with a few islands in the Pacific (Midway, Wake), the United States also exercises guardianship over certain islands and archipelagos in the Pacific and Caribbean with associated State status (Puerto Rico), “freely associated” territories (Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia and Republic of Belau) or “unincorporated” territories in the United States (American Samoa, Guam, Virgin Islands).