United States (Manifest Destiny)

United States of Columbia
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Motto:  "In God We Trust" Other traditional mottos: "E pluribus unum" (Latin) "Out of many, one" "Annuit cœptis" (Latin) "Providence favors our undertakings" "Novus ordo seclorum" (Latin) "New order of the ages"
Anthem: "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Capital	Philadelphia
Largest city	New York City
Official languages	None at the federal level
Recognised national languages	English (lingua franca)
Recognised regional languages	Anglo-Cherokee Arabic Chamorro Cherokee Chinese Chipewyan Choctaw Cree Creek Dominican Creole French German Greenlandic Gullah Haitian Creole Inuit Jamaican Patois Japanese Louisiana Creole Maya Mohawk Muscogee Navajo Ojibwe Portuguese Samoan Seminole Spanish Sioux Yupik]]
Ethnic groups (2020)	51.6% White (German, English, Irish, Italian, Slav, Arab-Berber, Other) 22.4% Multiracial (Mulattoes, Mestizos, Zambos) 10.2% Black (Freedman, Afro-Caribbean, Biafran, Ghananian) 8.4% Amerindian (Cherokee, Iroquis, Lakota, Seminole, Navajo, Inuit, Maya) 6.0% Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Indians) 0.2% Pacific Islander (Hawaiian) 1.1% Other
Religion (2020)	63% Christianity —40% Protestantism —21% Catholicism —2% Other Christian 29% No religion 6% Others 2% Unknown
Demonym(s)	Columbian
Government	Federal presidential constitutional republic
• President	Nikki Haley
• Vice President	Ron DeSantis
• Prime Minister	Kamala Harris
• Chancellor	Reza Pahlavi
• Speaker of the House	Nancy Pelosi
• Chief Justice	Brandon Fritzgerald
Legislature	Congress
• Upper house	Senate
• Lower house	House of Representatives
"Independence [from Great Britain]"
Calling code	+1

The United States of America (also called the United States, the US, the U.S.A., or America) is a federal constitutionalist republic comprised of states, nine incorporated territories, and a federal district. Situated mainly on the North American continent, the 48 contiguous states are commonly referred to as the 'main 48', or the 'upper 48', while the remaining 11 are non-contiguous, though three (Yucatan, Belize, and Panana) are geographically part of North America, the remainder are part of or entirely comprised of islands. The United States shares borders with Mexico to the south, Central America to the west and Colombia to the east (Panama), as well as maritime borders with the West Indies to the southeast of Puerto Rico and to the north and south of Guadeloupe & Martinique.

The United States is a member of the G11, G30, NATO, and is a permanent (and founding) member of the World Assembly, with which it carries considerable weight in the Security Council. America possesses the seventh-largest military in the world by number of troops and the largest air force and navy, as well as the status of one of the world's ranked superpowers. It is also a nuclear weapons state and possesses the second-largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world, with a total stockpile of 6,500 warheads, behind only the Soviet Union's 9,000.

History

1.1

Indigenous peoples and pre-Columbian history

1.2

European settlement

1.3

American Revolution (1775-1783)

1.4

Independence and Constitution (1783 & 1787)

1.5

Early National Years (1789-1849)

1.6

Growth of the Union (1812-1889)

1.7

Mexican-American War (1846-1848)

1.8

A Growing Divide (1849-1860)

1.9

Civil War (1861-1865)

Irreconcilable sectional conflict regarding the enslavement of Africans and African Americans ultimately led to the American Civil War. With the 1860 election of Republican Abraham Lincoln, conventions in thirteen slave states declared secession and formed the Confederation of Independent States (the "South", the "Dixie-Caribbean" or the "Confederacy"), while the federal government (the "Union") maintained that secession was illegal.

• South Carolina
• Georgia
• Piedmont
• Alabama
• Cherokee
• Mississippi
• Florida
• Cuba
• Muskogee
• Louisiana
• Arkansas
• Bahamas
• Texas

• North Carolina
• Ozark
• Osage
• Seminole
• Yucatan

Restoration (1866-1879)

1.11

Rise to World Power (1879-1918)

1.12

World War I (1915-1919)

1.13

Inter-war period (1919-1941)

1.14

World War II (1941-1945)

1.15

Cold War (1946-1993)

1.16

Domestic Changes (1952-1980)

1.17

End of the Cold War (1993)

1.18

Modern Times (1991-Present)

2

Politics and government

Government

Nikki Haley
42nd President

Ron DeSantis
46th Vice President

Kamala Harris
16th Prime Minister

States and territories

States of the U.S.

Name Postal abbreviation Admission to the Union Capital Population House seats Legislature Governor Premier Alaska AK October 14, 1956 Anchorage 663,822 4 Duma Template:Country data Yucatan YC October 14, 1848 Meirida 5,663,822 4 Congress Hispaniola HS October 14, 1978 Maguana 22,278,000 4 Congress Template:Country data North Carolina NC March 1, 1779 Raleigh 10,453,948 23 General Assembly Roy Cooper Tim Moore Template:Country data South Carolina SC March 1, 1779 Columbie 5,124,712 11 Parliament Paulette Éwanjé Henri Montandon

Political Parties

The United States is considered a multiparty democracy with many different parties contesting federal, state, and local elections. Fourteen national parties have representation in Congress, specifically in the House of Representatives. The centre-right Republican Party and centre-left Democratic Party are the largest of the national parties and typically carry the most seats in all U.S. federal elections. The Republicans and Democrats also are the most likely to win executive elections, such as elections for U.S. President, although other parties have won in the past.

Several political parties have risen which advocate for a certain group or region within the country. The largest of these parties is the Hispanic-oriented Unión Demócrata Cristiana which promotes Christian democracy in the United States, the Black Independent Party, which focuses issues pertaining to African Americans, and the Amerindian National Congress for Native Americans outside the States of Aboriginals. The Agriculture Party, Technology Alliance, Bloc Québécois, Texas National Party, [[]], and, are all regional political parties. The God's Values Party pushes policies which are Evangelical in nature, but does not explicitly endorse one particular religion.

In recent years, several new political parties with stronger partisan ideologies have formed or grown in size in the United States. This includes the Columbia First Party led by Pierre Rutherford, the Constitution Party led by , the Libertarian Party led by Sarah Palin and the Socialist Party led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among others. At the same time, the Progressive-Green Party which advocates left-wing political ideologies has grown in size since 2010. Political pundits have noted that the rise of such parties is due to the political polarization slowly occurring across the United States.

Demographics

The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the population of the United States is 404,294,209, as of July 1, 2020. The United States is the third most populous country in the world behind China and India, and ahead of Japan and the Philippines. The main drivers of population in the United States is immigration and to a lesser extent, natural growth.

Culture

6.1 Music and art 6.2 Cuisine 6.3 Sports 7

See Also

• U.S. states
• List of U.S. presidents