United States

A location; a country. Its full name is the United States of America. Also known (abbreviated) as the US and the USA. It is located in North America. It is considered a superpower nation. It was formerly a colony of the United Kingdom.

It is subdivided into 50 states, and also has a number of territories: Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the United States Minor Outlying Islands. Palau, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia were formerly colonies of the US.