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List of U.S. states. This article lists the 50 states of the United States. It also lists their populations, the date they became a state or agreed to the United States Declaration of Independence, their total area, land area, water area, and the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives.
On July 4, 1776, Founding Fathers wrote the United States Declaration of Independence. They won the Revolutionary War and started a new country. They signed the constitution in 1787 and the Bill of Rights in 1791. General George Washington, who had led the war, became its first president.
The United States is a constitutional federal republic, in which the president (the head of state and head of government ), Congress, and judiciary share powers reserved to the national government, and the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments. The federal government is divided into three branches, as per the specific ...
David Alexander Johnston (1949–1980) was a volcanologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) who was killed by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington. One of the principal scientists on the monitoring team, Johnston died while manning an observation post on the morning of May 18, 1980.
Currently, the CIA World Factbook gives 9,826,675 km 2 (3,794,100 sq mi), [7] the United Nations Statistics Division gives 9,629,091 km 2 (3,717,813 sq mi), [8] and the Encyclopedia Britannica gives 9,522,055 km 2 (3,676,486 sq mi) (Great Lakes area included but not coastal waters). [9] These sources consider only the 50 states and the Federal ...
The United States of America, commonly known as the United States or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federation of 50 states, a federal capital district, and 326 Indian reservations. Outside the union of states, it asserts sovereignty over five major unincorporated island territories and various uninhabited islands. The country has the world's third-largest ...
Under the law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s.
