United States (New Albion)

United States of America

Languages
Official	English
Other	Spanish, French, Mandarin
Capital:	Washington, DC
President	John McCain
Population	abt. 230,000,000 {{{2}}}
Independence	from United Kingdom
Declared	July 4, 1776
Recognized	September 3, 1783
Currency:	U.S. Dollar

The United States of America (U.S.A.), commonly referred to as the United States (U.S.), is a country in North America. It is made up of 41 states, and is considered the world's most powerful nation.

States

#	State	Ratification‡ or Admission	Preceding Entity
1	Delaware	December 7, 1787 ‡	Lower Counties on Delaware, then sovereign state in Confederation
2	Pennsylvania	December 12, 1787 ‡	Province of Pennsylvania, then sovereign state in Confederation
3	New Jersey	December 18, 1787 ‡	Province of New Jersey, then sovereign state in Confederation
4	Georgia	January 2, 1788 ‡	Province of Georgia, then sovereign state in Confederation
5	Connecticut	January 9, 1788 ‡	Connecticut Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation
6	Massachusetts	February 6, 1788 ‡	Province of Massachusetts Bay, then sovereign state in Confederation
7	Maryland	April 28, 1788 ‡	Province of Maryland, then sovereign state in Confederation
8	South Carolina	May 23, 1788 ‡	Province of South Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation
9	New Hampshire	June 21, 1788 ‡	Province of New Hampshire, then sovereign state in Confederation
10	Virginia	June 25, 1788 ‡	Virginia Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation
11	New York	July 26, 1788 ‡	Province of New York, then sovereign state in Confederation
12	North Carolina	November 21, 1789 ‡	Province of North Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation
13	Rhode Island	May 29, 1790 ‡	Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, then sovereign state in Confederation
14	Vermont	March 4, 1791	Province of New York, Vermont Republic
15	Kentucky	June 1, 1792	Virginia
16	Tennessee	June 1, 1796	North Carolina, then Southwest Territory
17	Ohio	March 1, 1803	Northwest Territory
18	Louisiana	April 30, 1812	Orleans Territory
19	Indiana	December 11, 1816	Northwest Territory (Indiana Territory)
20	Mississippi	December 10, 1817	Mississippi Territory
21	Illinois	December 3, 1818	Northwest Territory (Illinois Territory)
22	Alabama	December 14, 1819	Alabama Territory
23	Maine	March 15, 1820	Massachusetts
24	Missouri	August 10, 1821	Missouri Territory
25	Arkansas	June 15, 1836	Arkansas Territory
26	Michigan	January 26, 1837	Northwest Territory (Michigan Territory)
27	Florida	March 3, 1845	Florida Territory
28	Iowa	December 28, 1846	Iowa Territory
29	Wisconsin	May 29, 1848	Northwest Territory (Wisconsin Territory)
30	Minnesota	May 11, 1858	Minnesota Territory
31	Kansas	January 29, 1861	Kansas Territory
32	West Virginia	June 20, 1863	Virginia
33	Nebraska	March 1, 1867	Nebraska Territory
34	North Dakota	November 2, 1889	Dakota Territory
35	South Dakota	November 2, 1889	Dakota Territory
36	Oklahoma	November 16, 1907	Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory
37	Cuba	November 20, 1907	Spanish Colony (Cuba Territory)
38	Philippines	July 4, 1946	Spanish Colony (Philippine Territory)
39	Alaska	January 3, 1959	Alaska Territory
40	Hawaii	August 21, 1959	Kingdom of Hawaii (Hawaii Territory)
41	Puerto Rico	July 4, 1999	Spanish Colony, Virgin Islands (Commonwealth)
42	Guam	Before January 1, 2009	Guam Territory
43	Saipan	Before January 1, 2013	Japanese Colony (Northern Mariana Islands Territory)

Presidents

No.	Name	Party	Assumed office	Left office
1	George Washington	Federalist	30 April 1789	3 March 1797
2	John Adams	Federalist	4 March 1797	3 March 1801
3	Thomas Jefferson	Democratic-Republican	4 March 1801	3 March 1809
4	James Madison	Democratic-Republican	4 March 1809	3 March 1817
5	James Monroe	Democratic-Republican	4 March 1817	3 March 1825
6	John Quincy Adams	Democratic-Republican	4 March 1825	3 March 1829
7	Andrew Jackson	Democrat	4 March 1829	3 March 1837
8	Martin Van Buren	Democrat	4 March 1837	3 March 1841
9	William Henry Harrison (DIO)	Whig	4 March 1841	4 April 1841
10	John Tyler	Whig	4 April 1841	3 March 1845
11	James Knox Polk	Democrat	4 March 1845	3 March 1849
12	Zachary Taylor (DIO)	Whig	4 March 1849	9 July 1850
13	Millard Fillmore	Whig	9 July 1850	3 March 1853
14	Franklin Pierce	Democrat	4 March 1853	3 March 1857
15	James Buchanan	Democrat	4 March 1857	3 March 1861
16	Abraham Lincoln (A)	Republican	4 March 1861	15 April 1865
17	Andrew Johnson	Democrat	15 April 1865	3 March 1869
18	Ulysses S. Grant	Republican	4 March 1869	3 March 1877
19	Rutheford Hayes	Republican	4 March 1877	3 March 1881
20	James Garfield (A)	Republican	4 March 1881	19 September 1881
21	Chester Arthur	Republican	19 September 1881	3 March 1885
22	Grover Cleveland	Democrat	4 March 1885	3 March 1889
23	Benjamin Harrison	Republican	4 March 1889	3 March 1893
24	Grover Cleveland (2)	Democrat	4 March 1893	3 March 1897
25	William McKinley (A)	Republican	4 March 1897	14 September 1901
26	Theodore Roosevelt	Republican	14 September 1901	3 March 1909
27	William H. Taft	Republican	4 March 1909	3 March 1913
28	Woodrow Wilson	Democrat	4 March 1913	3 March 1921
29	Warren G. Harding (DIO)	Republican	4 March 1921	2 August 1923
30	Calvin Coolidge	Republican	4 March 1923	3 March 1933
31	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Democrat	4 March 1933	12 April 1945
32	Harry S. Truman	Democrat	12 April 1945	20 January 1953
33	Dwight D. Eisenhower	Republican	20 January 1953	20 January 1961
34	John F. Kennedy (A)	Democrat	20 January 1961	22 November 1963
35	Hubert Humphrey	Democrat	22 November 1963	20 January 1969
36	Robert F. Kennedy	Democrat	20 January 1969	20 January 1977
37	Howard Baker	Republican	20 January 1977	20 January 1985
38	George H.W. Bush	Republican	20 January 1985	20 January 1993
39	Bill Clinton	Democrat	20 January 1993	20 January 2001
40	Steve Forbes	Republican	20 January 2001	Incumbent