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[[File:USA.png|200px|thumb|right|Flag of the United States]]
[[File:USA.png|200px|thumb|right|Flag of the United States]]
[[File:Location of the United States on Earth.png|200px|thumb|Location of the USA on Earth in the present day]]
[[File:Location of the United States on Earth.png|200px|thumb|Location of the USA on Earth in the present day]]
The '''United States of America''' was a federal constitutional republic comprising over sixty different districts. The country was situated almost entirely in the western hemisphere: its fifty contiguous states (four of which being technically commonwealths),<ref>[[Wikipedia:U.S. State|Wikipedia]]</ref> and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lay in central North America between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south; the state of Alaska is in the north-west of the continent with Canada to its east, and the state of Hawaii is in the mid-Pacific. U.S. territories, or insular areas, are scattered around the Caribbean and Pacific. As of [[2012]], it has the third largest population and the largest economy on Earth. As of [[2525]], the United States has formed a loose association with [[Mexico]] and [[Canada]] to form the [[United Republic of North America]].<ref>'''[[Halo 3]]''', campaign level, ''[[Floodgate]]''</ref><ref name="enc285">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 285''</ref>
The '''United States of America''' was a federal constitutional republic comprising over sixty different districts. The country was situated almost entirely in the western hemisphere: its fifty contiguous states (four of which being technically commonwealths),<ref>[[Wikipedia:U.S. State|Wikipedia]]</ref> and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lay in central North America between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south; the state of Alaska is in the north-west of the continent with Canada to its east, and the state of Hawaii is in the mid-Pacific. U.S. territories, or insular areas, are scattered around the Caribbean and Pacific. As of [[2012]], it has the third largest population and the largest economy on Earth. As of [[2525]], the United States has formed a loose association with [[Mexico]] and [[Canada]] to form the [[United Republic of North America]].<ref>'''[[Halo 3]]''', campaign level ''[[Floodgate]]''</ref><ref name="enc285">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 285''</ref>


==United Nations==
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