United States
United States (officially United States of America) is a country in North America, with its capital at Washington, D.C, and is home to roughly 340.0M people.
English is the official language; the currency in circulation is United States dollar ($); people from here are called American.
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- »The United States has no official language at the federal level.
- »Yellowstone, established in 1872, is widely considered the world's first national park.
- »It spans six time zones in the states alone, plus more in its territories.
> THE OUTLINE_
It straddles both the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle.
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United States touches two neighbours: Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. Directions run from one centre to the other.
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Washington, D.C. was purpose-built as a capital on land ceded by Maryland and Virginia, chosen as a compromise between northern and southern states. It is in no state, and its residents had no presidential vote until 1961.
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9,435,512 km² (3,643,070 sq mi), 3rd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of China.
Population 340,003,797, 3rd of 198 on file. That averages 36 per km² (93 per sq mi).
> THE FLAG_
Thirteen stripes for the original colonies and one star per state. It is the only national flag designed to change, and it has, 27 times. The current 50-star arrangement was designed in 1958 by Robert Heft, a 17-year-old, for a school project; he was given a B-minus, later raised to an A.
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