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The
United States of America—commonly referred to
as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America—is
a constitutional federal 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, and the state
of Hawaii
is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country
also possesses several territories, or insular areas,
scattered around the Caribbean
and Pacific.
At
3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²)
and with more than 300 million people, the United
States is the third or fourth largest country by total
area, and third largest by land area and by population.
The United States is one of the world's most ethnically
diverse nations, the product of large-scale immigration
from many countries. The U.S. economy is the largest
national economy in the world, with a nominal 2006
gross domestic product (GDP) of more than US$13 trillion
(over 25% of the world total based on nominal GDP
and almost 20% by purchasing power parity).
The
nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain
located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776,
they jointly 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.
A federal 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 nineteenth 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. The Spanish-American War and World
War I confirmed the nation'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. In the post–Cold
War era, the United States is the only remaining superpower—accounting
for approximately 50% of global military spending—and
a dominant economic, political, and cultural force
in the world.
Popular
media
In
1878, Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated the power of
photography to capture motion. In 1894, the world's
first commercial motion picture exhibition was given
in New York City, using Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope.
The next year saw the first commercial screening of
a projected film, also in New York, and the United
States was in the forefront of sound film's development
in the following decades. Since the early twentieth
century, the U.S. film industry has largely been based
in and around Hollywood, California. Director D. W.
Griffith was central to the development of film grammar
and Orson Welles's Citizen Kane (1941) is frequently
cited in critics' polls as the greatest film of all
time. American screen actors like John Wayne and Marilyn
Monroe have become iconic figures, while producer/entrepreneur
Walt Disney
was a leader in both animated film and movie merchandising.
The major film studios of Hollywood
are the primary source of the most commercially successful
movies in the world, such as Star
Wars (1977) and Titanic (1997), and the products
of Hollywood today dominate the global film industry.
Americans
are the heaviest television viewers in the world,and
the average time spent in front of the screen continues
to rise, hitting five hours a day in 2006. The four
major broadcast networks are all commercial entities.
Americans listen to radio programming, also largely
commercialized, on average just over two-and-a-half
hours a day. Aside from web portals and web search
engines, the most popular websites are eBay,
MySpace,
Amazon.com, The New York Times, and Apple. Twelve
million Americans keep a blog.
The
rhythmic and lyrical styles of African American music
have deeply influenced American music at large, distinguishing
it from European
traditions. Elements from folk idioms such as the
blues and what is now known as old-time music were
adopted and transformed into popular genres with global
audiences. Jazz was developed by innovators such as
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington early in the twentieth
century. Country music, rhythm and blues, and rock
and roll emerged between the 1920s and 1950s. In the
1960s, Bob Dylan emerged from the folk revival to
become one of America's greatest songwriters and James
Brown led the development of funk. More recent American
creations include hip hop and house music. American
pop stars such as Elvis
Presley, Michael Jackson, and Madonna
have become global celebrities.
Sports
Since
the late nineteenth century, baseball has been regarded
as the national sport; American football, basketball,
and ice hockey are the country's three other leading
professional team sports. College football and basketball
also attract large audiences. Football
is now by several measures the most popular spectator
sport in the United States. Boxing
and horse
racing were once the most watched individual sports,
but they have been eclipsed by golf and auto racing,
particularly NASCAR. Soccer is played widely at the
youth and amateur levels and is growing in popularity
as a professional spectator sport. Tennis and many
outdoor sports are also popular.
While
most major U.S. sports have evolved out of European
practices, basketball, volleyball, skateboarding,
and snowboarding
are American inventions. Lacrosse and surfing
arose from Native
American and Native Hawaiian activities that predate
Western contact. Eight Olympic Games have taken place
in the United States. The United States has won 2,301
medals at the Summer Olympic
Games, more than any other country, and 216 in
the Winter Olympic Games, the second mos. (Credit:
Wikipedia).
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