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| Capital | Washington, D.C. | ||||||
| Largest city | New York City | ||||||
| Other cities | Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, New Orleans | ||||||
| Language official |
English (De jure) | ||||||
| others | Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Kpelle, Micronesian languages | ||||||
| President | Hillary Clinton | ||||||
| Vice President | Tim Kaine | ||||||
| Area | 11.969104 million km² | ||||||
| Population | population | ||||||
| Independence | July 4, 1776 | ||||||
| Currency | U.S. dollar ($) (USD) | ||||||
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 55 states, five major overseas territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also a founding member of the CAUSMEX, also called formally the north american trade and defence union, its formed by the united states, mexico, canada, cuba and the philipines, and also overseas territories are also portayed as their own nation. It is the world's largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Siberia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City.
Paleo-Americans migrated from Siberia to the North American mainland at least 12,000 years ago, and are the ancestors of modern Native Americans. Colonization by Europeans began in the 16th century. Great Britain's Thirteen Colonies, in what is now the eastern U.S., quarreled with the British Crown over taxation and political representation, leading to the American Revolution (1765–1791). After the Revolution, the United States gained independence, the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of liberal democracy. In the late 18th century, the U.S. began expanding across North America, gradually obtaining new territories, sometimes through war, frequently displacing Native Americans, and admitting new states. By 1848, the United States spanned the continent from east to west. The controversy surrounding the practice of slavery culminated in the secession of the Confederate States of America, which fought the remaining states of the Union during the American Civil War (1861–1865). With the Union's victory and preservation, slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment.
By 1900, the United States had grown to become the world's largest economy, and the Spanish–American War and World War I established the country as a world power. After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the U.S. entered World War II on the Allied side. The aftermath of the war left the United States and the Soviet Union as the world's two superpowers and led to the Cold War, which commenced in 1945 and ended in 1989 with the Soviet Union's breakup. During the Cold War, both countries engaged in a struggle for ideological dominance but avoided direct military conflict. They also competed in the Space Race, which culminated in the 1970 American spaceflight in which the U.S. was the first nation to land humans on the Moon, and later the Scramble for the Moon, ending in 1978 with Soviet spacefligth in wich the USSR was the first nation to land a permanent settlement on the moon. Simultaneously while the Space Race was happening, the civil rights movement (1954–1968) led to legislation abolishing state and local Jim Crow laws and other codified racial discrimination against African Americans. With the Soviet Union's Breakup in 1989 and the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's sole superpower. In 2000, following the December 21 global attacks, the United States became the lead member of the Americo-Arab war, which saw its involvement in the War in Iraq (2001–2013) and the Invasion of Iran (2003–2019), later in 2008 with barack obama wining the re-election there was a increase in polarization on politcs, and on later years the united states suffered a rise on poltical violence, with the goverment declaring war on said political violence and trying to restore the order in the united states, this is known as the war on violence.
The United States government is a federal republic with three separate branches of government, including a bicameral legislature. It is a liberal democracy and has a market economy. It ranks very high in international measures of quality of life, income and wealth, economic competitiveness, human rights, innovation, and education; it has low levels of perceived corruption. The United States has the highest median income per person of any polity in the world, although it has high levels of incarceration and inequality and lacks universal health care. As a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities, the U.S. has been shaped by centuries of immigration.
The United States is a highly developed country, and its economy accounts for approximately a quarter of global GDP and is the world's largest by GDP at market exchange rates. By value, the United States is the world's largest importer and second-largest exporter. Although it accounts for just over 4.2% of the world's total population, the U.S. holds over 30% of the total wealth in the world, the largest share held by any country. The United States is a founding member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States, NATO, and as already mentioned, CAUSMEX, and ex member of SEATO, and is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. The country makes up more than a third of global military spending and is the foremost military power in the world and a leading political, cultural, and scientific force.
History[]
The New World and Colonial US[]
The United States didn't exist until Christopher Columbus founded the Bahamas or the New World. The British and French went to the United States land which France set up Colonies in the Middle East and Quebec while Britain lands in the Colonial US and Newfoundland. Roanoke Colony was found but later abandon since people were missing so Jamestown is found
The Mayflower Compact signed on the mayflower in 1620 set an early precedent for self-government and constitutionalism.
The US is still controlled by Britain and later the Spanish took Texas and California. The British fought in the King Philip's war as they took Maine from tribal lands. The British then went to war with France in the Seven Years' War and won which the British took Quebec and Midwest US. The following years, US civilians protested from the British with Taxes on Sugar, Tea, and Stamps. The US than declared independence in 1776 and won Yorktown which ended the Revolutionary war.
A New Nation[]
The United States now becomes a new nation under George Washington. The United States then created the Bill of rights for the next amendments for US rights but didn't include black rights. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana Territory from France which expanded the US. The US then went to the War of 1812 but became stalemate. The US is then ruled by James Monroe and the Monroe Doctrine is sent to let any Europeans not colonize any North American Soil.
Jackson and the edge of the Civil War[]
Andrew Jackson became a Democratic president which rised the Democratic party in the 1830s. The Indian removal act moved Indians to Oklahoma and The Oregon trail begins as immigrants move to new places in the US. James K. Polk led the US in the Mexican-American War where Zachary Taylor occupied Mexico city and ended the war. The United States then begin to corrupt in Slavery with the South. Millard Fillmore, Zachary Taylor, and James Buchanan tried to fix the problem with Slavery but Abraham Lincoln became president in 1860 as a republican and many people in the South hated this and then freed themselves as a new nation.
Battle of Franklin. one of the many battles during the American Civil War
Civil War and Reconstruction ( 1861 - 1877)[]
The United States then fought in the American Civil war from the Confederates. In 1861, Bull Run became a Union defeat and later the McClellan invasion of Virginia failed. 1862 became the last hope of the Union and they won Antietam bringing an end to the Confederacy. In 1863, Grant won Vicksburg while Meade won Gettysburg and the Confederates were having a huge defeat. The Civil War ended in 1865 as the United States captured Richmond and in April of 1865, Abraham Lincoln was killed. The United States then Reconstruct the United States removing Confederate troops, rebuilding cities, and Urban Growth. The 13th Amendment freed Slavery and Black get to vote but don't have rights because of Jim Crow laws in the South.
Gilded Age and the Late Modern Era (1877 - 1918)[]
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, 1902
The Gilded Age begin as a age of Urban Growth and Economic Growth. The United States population had grown from immigration in other Countries from France, Germany, Italy, and Russia. James Garfield is assassinated in a railroad station. The Telephone is invented which created the Age of Communication. Thomas Edison invented the Lightbulb and the Wireless radio is invented by Guglielmo Marconi. The United States had also grown in conflicts from the Spanish-American war. The United States than turn into the 20th Century.
The United States then entered the 20th century. US President Theodore Roosevelt helped the nation against big companies from being into a monopoly country so Theodore Roosevelt used his Progressive movements to stop big businesses. Women rights were coming to a close and World War I came. In 1917, The US joined the Allies in World War I and won the war. Woodrow Wilson failed to join the League of Nations and women finally get rights in 1919.
Worker during construction of the Empire State Building in New York City in 1930
Interwar Period (1918 - 1939)[]
The United States came to a close in the Interwar Period and the US began to develop. The United States grows its economy with Mills, Industry, and Lumber and also with war developments and technology. The United States began the Roaring Twenties with a time of fun and dancing until the stock market crashed in 1929. The United States then began low debt from Herbert Hoover until Franklin Roosevelt helped the nation with a New Deal. The United States begin to fix itself with a New Deal with FDR which builds the Empire State Building, Golden Gate, Mount Rushmore, and Buildings during the Skyscraper age.
World War II (1939 - 1945)[]
Franklin Roosevelt is now kicking the Great Depression away until Der Fuhrer Adolf Hitler came to power and invaded Poland. In 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister of Britain and FDR gave the Weapons and supplies to Britain. In 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour and the US responded by a declaration of war by mobilizing men and replaced them with women in the homefront. The US lost the Philippines and won Midway and then saved Papua New Guinea in the Battle of the Coral Sea. The US then won Iwo Jima and Okinawa and in Europe, the Germans lost Normandy and Operation Torch. The US wiped out Italy in Monte Cassino and Germany took Rome until 1944. The US won Paris and then the Bulge making the Americans fight in the Rhine. The German mainland is split from the Soviets and US in 1945 and later Japan.
Mushroom cloud formed by the Trinity Experiment in New Mexico 1945, FDR who was present during the time this picture was taken, saw the destruction the nuke had, and tougth it was inhumane even for the japanese, and decided to reserve it for another enemy that couldnt be defeated as easley
A world of change, (POD) (1945 - 1948)[]
In 1945, Franklin Roosevelt was present when they tested the bomb in New Mexico and it seems dangerous to the Japanese People, he tougth despite all the warcrimes the japanese commited using such a force of destruction against them would be inhumane, so he planned Operation Downfall wich would invade Japanese mainland Islands. Which changed our course of history, then FDR lost the election and then died in 1945... Operation Downfall caused more deaths than 2 atomic bombs. A New Hope in 1945 changed our world or is it a new hope for America?
Nimitz, MacArthur and Leahy holding a conference with FDR before the end of his last term.
In 1945, as the other section said, FDR died. Harry S. Truman led the American forces and the American country and started Operation Downfall, wich he modified to incluide china due to his anti-communism policies. In 1946, WWII had been made longer. The US sent troops to China and Japan backed up by the newly created LAMM. MacArthur and Nimitz attacks Japanese troops and Navy as Nimitz wipe out the Japanese navy. Yamamoto surrenders to Nimitz which ends the Japanese Navy. Maxwell Taylor bombed Japanese artillery camps near Hiroshima and in 5 days America occupied Japan. In China, Mark Clark led American and ROC forces to stop Communist troops overtaking Beijing and Jonathan Wainwright occupied Shanghai from the Japanese ending Japanese rule in China. Wainwright and Clark invade Manchuria since the Soviets gave Communist China Manchuria. MacArthur then led a 6 month battle in Tokyo and 4 months in Kyoto. Sendai was the last Japanese stronghold and in early 1948, MacArthur took Sendai and Operation Downfall was over. In China, Manchuria was taken in 1949 and ended the Civil War.
Early Cold war era (1948 - 1963)[]
Explorer 1 statistics and orbital diagram, the first man made satellite in orbit
The United States now is at war with the Soviets but not actually in war, a rather cold one. After World War II ended in europe, the United States who was still at war in japan under truman administraton financed and implemented the Marshall Plan to help rebuild western Europe; disbursements paid between 1945 and 1949 would total $13 billion ($115 billion in 2021), however the change was not only economic, but also cultural due to truman sending also engenieers to rebiuld bombed cities in western europe, then the sports industry came along and inverted in the project in exchange for adding american football or baseball stadiums in the new plans, wich boosted the popularity of said sports in western europe, and america allowed western europe to do the same on them, by spreading their sports (mostly football) all over the united states. after the 1949 election Strom Thurmond became president, all of this thanks to the party switch in wich there was a split bettwen the democrat party and other democrats who supported racist ideas known as dixiecrats wich resulted in the split and formation of the dixiecrat party, thurmond then formed a puppet state in germany named the 4th German Reich to help combat against comunism. then minessota splitted their state in 1947 and arrowhead was formed, The United States then annexed Greenland from Denmark and in 1950, and in the same year the Korean War begins wich resulted in full south korean and allied victory with south korea now controlling the peninsula by 1953. another of the changes to the states happend in 1952 when louisiana changed its name to bonaparte and also changed its flag to fit the new name, louisiana also wanted to change its capital too from baton rouge to new orleans, but was denied
U.S. Marines disembark in a coastal south-vietnamese city during deployment, 1960
in the aftermath of the korean war, Stalin died, and Now president Eisenhower worked to obtain friendlier relationships with the Soviet Union. also endeding McCarthyism, but at the same time he gave orders the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation better known as NATO and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization known as SEATO, then in 1955 eisenhower would do the first ever color transmission. Eisenhower also expanded the Social Security program. and unlike his predecessor Thurmond, He promoted civil rights but he did it cautiously, and sent in the Army when trouble threatened over racial integration in Little Rock, Arkansas. earlier under thurmond administration the National Space Oceanic and Atmosphere Research Association better known as NSOARA, was founded and after hearing of a failed soviet attempt to make a satellite orbit arround earth they launched the first successfull satellite to orbit around earth, the Explorer 1 and with this, the space race would start, now In 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected President and his administration saw the acceleration of the country's role in the Space Race, the peacefull rise of power of Fidel Castro in wich the united states decided to not intervine because of varied factors, one of them being that the Cuban people were in favor of Fidel Castro, and overthrowing him on a violent coup would not help, so instead kennedy tried to convince castro about the benefits of capitalism wich did not work, another factor was that the soviet union threatened to attack the united states if they intervined in the election, either on traditional warfare, or nuclear one, in the end, they decided to let cuba be comunist in exchange for them not sending troops or nuclear bombs to the island, and so kennedy ended the thing peacefully, however, there was a series of low-level armed clashes bettwen cuba and the united states in wich people who lived in the coast in the south and the cubans alike feared an invasion wich would start world war 3, this series of constant and low level armed clashes bettwen the US and the cuban castro regime were known as the Cuban-American dispute, and the JFK amdinistration also saw the start of the vietnam war when north vietnamese forces broke the SaHa non-agression treaty by crossing the border and invading the south. President Kennedy still was assassinated on November 22, 1963, leaving the nation in profound shock. and in 1963, gaia 1 becomes the first mission to put a man in space, whose name was ken henderson
Mid cold war era (1963 - 1978)[]
president of the united states barry goldwater meeting with Chiang Kai-shek in 1967 during the Sino-American split
vice president Martin Luther King Jr. then came to power after the assasination of JFK, he was the first african american president, and his administration saw a great advance in the civil rigths movement, with the total dissolution of desegregation in 1963, varied economic programs that went against unemployment and economic injustice and as a minor event, the gulf of tonkin incident, in wich us spy ship uss liberty was damaged beyond repair, and war crimes by the north vietnamese were commited with the survivors, MLK told the public that the incident was made with the intention of destroying a nerby civilian ship, and due to this, it trigered a reaction by member who signed the SaHa non agression treaty and further escalation in the war with SEATO now in the game, later in 66, luther king resinged due to varied factors, such as constant death threats under his presidency, and belived that due to him being black no one taked him seriousley, but over all because he tougth that it was a hard job, and went down to be one of the best american presidents, the next in the presidency was Barry Goldwater, whose administrations also saw him just like kennedy, encouraging space exploration and the start of the victory program who would take us to the moon later on, the partitipation of the united states football dream team in the 1966 world cup composed of some of the best mostly foregin football athletes but then loosing to brasil three to one, the intensification of the sino-american who started back in 1964 during MLK administration over differences in how capitalism should be applied, the chinese kuomingtan wanted an authoritarian one party capitalist state, while the united states wanted a liberal democratic capitalist state, and another event, some more protests, not for rigths this time tougth, this time is about the goverment, no policy just downrigth their way of sistem, with themes such as going against the claim or fact that capitalism or liberal democracy actually work, made either by individuals with a common goal, or organized (often) militia groups such as the red guards, these left leaning people would later found the party known as Social Democrats, USA a bit earlier in the year 1970, wich would go against the conservative candidate from the american independent party, George Wallace, but fail to win the election
Victory 10 Astronaut Michael Collins becomes the First man on the Moon, December 17, 1972
and then in the year 1972, president george wallace dies due to a heart attack, vice president Curtis LeMay was supposed to take the role, but he negated and then the supreme court ruled that Gerald Ford, the leader of the house of representatives would take the role, however, it was for a short period of time as the 1972 elections came more earlier due to the death of candidate george wallace, and so in 1972, the most important and politically divided elections in the united states of the 20th century would start, on one side the left-centre democrats, who were running with gerald ford, despite him having low popularity, they had plans up their sleeves to try and convince people to vote for him due to him being better than the other options, then there was the rigth-centre republicans wich always had a good amount of popularity, and richard nixon was absolutely loved by the republicans, then amonst the rebel youngsters the most popular was Bayard Rustin, from the left-leaning social democrat party, who supported socialism and was an activist for the civil and gay rigths movements, and meanwhile the american independent party had a total makeover and turned themselves into a less far-rigth yet still rigthist and populist who seeked to unite the rigth known as the American Conservative movement, whose candidate was John Hospers, rigth winger who also loved libertarian policies, in the end, it was a close race but with a clear winner, American Conservative candidate, john hospers who won the elections with a close margin, the first memorable thing the hospers administration saw was the moon landing during the mission Victory 10, who bringed 3 men to the moon, Michael collins, who made the first step, ken henderson, first man in space, and finally John Smith, who was an ex-air support pilot during the vietnam war, the module was direct desent so everyone was on the moon, no one was left behind
Geography[]
states and territories of the United States[]
States[]
| Flag and name | Capital city | Breakaway, Ratification or admission |
|---|---|---|
Autonomous City Of Columbia  (Washington D.C for short)
|
Washington D.C | 1964 |
Alabama 
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Montgomery | 1819 |
Arizona 
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Phoenix | 1912 |
Arkansas
|
Phoenix | 1836 |
Arrowhead 
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Duluth | 1947 |
Bonaparte 
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Baton Rouge | 1952 (1792 as louisiana) |
| CaliforniaFile:California Flag.png | Sacramento | 1850 |
Connecticut 
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Hartford | 1788 |
Colorado 
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Denver | 1876 |
Delaware 
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Dover | 1787 |
Florida 
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Tallahassee | 1845 |
Georgia 
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Atlanta | 1788 |
Hilo And Hawai'i 
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Honolulu | 1961 |
Idaho 
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Boise | 1890 |
Illinois 
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Springfield | 1818 |
Indiana 
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Indianapolis | 1816 |
Iowa 
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Des Moines | 1846 |
Kansas 
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Topeka | 1861 |
Kentucky 
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Frankfort | 1792 |
Lincon 
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Spokane | 1990 |
Maine 
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Augusta | 1820 |
Maryland 
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Annapolis | 1788 |
Massachusetts 
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Boston | 1788 |
Michigan 
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Lansing | 1837 |
Minnesota 
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Saint Paul | 1858 |
Mississippi 
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Mississippi | 1817 (new flag accepted in 1972) |
Montana 
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Helena | 1889 |
Missouri 
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Jefferson City | 1821 |
Northern States 
|
Nuuk | 1960 |
Nevada 
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Carson City | 1792 |
Nebraska 
|
Lincoln | 1867 |
New york 
|
New York city | 2000 (1788 before partition) |
New Hapmshire 
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Concord | 1787 |
New Mexico 
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Santa Fe | 1912 |
New jersey 
|
Trenton | 1787 |
North carolina 
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Raleigh | 1789 |
North dakota 
|
Bismarck | 1889 |
Upstate new york 
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Albany | 2000 (1788 before partition) |
Puerto rico 
|
San Juan | 2022 |
Ohio 
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Columbus | 1803 |
Oklahoma 
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Oklahoma City | 1907 |
Oregon 
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Salem | 1859 (flag change in 2017) |
Pennsylvania 
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Harrisburg | 1787 |
Rhode island 
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Providence | 1790 |
South carolina 
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Columbia | 1788 |
South dakota 
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Pierre | 1889 |
Tennesee 
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Nashville | 1796 |
Texas 
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Austin | 1845 |
Utah 
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Salt Lake City | 1896 |
Vermont 
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Montpelier | 1791 |
Virginia 
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Richmond | 1788 |
Washington 
|
Olympia | 1889 |
West virginia 
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Charleston | 1863 |
Wisconsin 
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Madison | 1848 |
| Wyoming File:WyomingFlag-OurAmerica.png | Cheyenne | 1890 |
Overseas territories[]
the united states also has overseas territories, they are colonies work in a somewhat similar fashion to british protectorates, being quite autonomus and independent but not being a full on nation, and sometimes requiring help of the united states in politics and military, puerto rico used to be one until 2020
| Flag and name | Capital city | Acquired |
|---|---|---|
American Samoa 
|
Pago Pago | 1900 |
Guam 
|
Agana | 1899 |
U.S Virgin Islands 
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Charlotte Amalie | 1917 |
Pacific Islands 
|
Saipan | 1984 |
Liberia 
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Monrovia | 1991 |