The United States is a country in the Western Hemisphere. It consists of forty-eight contiguous states in North America, Alaska, a peninsula which forms the northwestern most part of North America, and Hawaii, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. There are several United States territories in the Pacific and Caribbean. The term “United States”, when used in the geographical sense, means the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States. The country shares land borders with Canada and Mexico and maritime (water) borders with Russia, Cuba, and The Bahamas.
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It consists of forty-eight contiguous states in North America, Alaska, which is a peninsula that forms the northwestern most part of North America, and Hawaii, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. The country shares land borders with Canada and Mexico and maritime (water) borders with Russia, Cuba, and The Bahamas.