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From Wiktionary under the GNU Free Documentation License. The United States of America (commonly referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories, or insular areas, in the Caribbean and Pacific. At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km) and with about 307 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by land area and population. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of US $14.3 trillion (a quarter of nominal global GDP and a fifth of global GDP at purchasing power parity). The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence. The Philadelphia Convention adopted the current United States Constitution on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791. In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national economy was the world's largest. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a military power. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a founding member of NATO. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union left the United States as the sole superpower. The country accounts for half of global military spending and is a leading economic, political and cultural force in the world. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License How will a United States economic collapse affect Asia? Q. Apparently, from what I've heard the United States is headed for an economic collapse. What I want to know is how will an Economic Collapse affect Asia? According to Peter Schiff, Asian currency will rise as the US dollar falls. China is looking to be a world economic leader and would lead Asia. Also billionaire Jim Rogers has moved to Singapore and said that China is going to grow. Do any of you feel that any of this is true? What I want to know is how will Asia do if the United States collapses economically? Asked by emartel01 - Sun Mar 30 21:05:44 2008 - - 7 Answers - 3 Comments A. First of all, the US economy is not going to collapse. It's not even clear we're in a recession. The great depression was exacerbated by a fledgling fed that did exactly the opposite of what they should have done. That is, they took liquidity out of the system rather than adding it. Regarding your question, a collapse of the largest economy in the world (we are four, some think five times larger than China in GDP) would send the entire world into a depression. Since we would presumably default on our treasury bonds, of which China and Japan hold the most in the world, countries who hold our bonds as foreign reserves would experience a crisis of liquidity. Also, their export markets would dry up overnight and there would be a run on their… [cont.] Answered by mb - Sun Mar 30 21:26:48 2008 Who was the president of the united states when texas bcame a state? Q. 1. Who was the president of the united states when texas became a state? 2. Who was the chief justice of the supreme court in the republic of texas? Asked by < A. homework qusetion? try using a book...no im just kidding..the president was john tyler Answered by DeAnNa R. - Sat Jan 20 16:18:14 2007 Should the United States government require citizens and private industry to further "green up" or else?
Q. According to the National Geographic article "After Oil; Powering the Future", sweeping change in energy conservation won't happen until our government mandates it. Some mandates exist at federal and state levels but most are minimal and many are meant to appease environmentalist without interfering with "dirty energy" profits. Should the United States government require citizens and private industry to further "green up" or else? Asked by Educator1 - Tue Sep 15 06:44:44 2009 - - 3 Answers - 3 Comments A. The USA is already the greenest nation on earth. Do you know that the air coming into California from the Pacific is why the state can never meet the EPA clean air standards. The air leaving the US for Europe is cleaner than that leaving Europe for Asia. So the US is already walking the walk and per capita is the lowest polluting nation on the face oft the earth. It should be when is the rest of the world going to catch up. If we could replace every coal fired power plant with nuclear plants we would be below even the strictest air quality standards. You can thank your local environmentalist green freaks and their energy company funded pogrom against nuclear power for the small amount of pollution we still have. Answered by James E - Tue Sep 15 08:33:58 2009 From Yahoo Answer Search: "United States"
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