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| | United States - Knowmore |
 | | There is a federal district, the District of Columbia, comprising the capital, Washington, D.C. The United States also owns a number of overseas territories. |
 | | The US is divided into three distinct sections: the continental United States, also known as "The Lower 48"; Alaska, which is physically connected only to Canada; and the archipelago of Hawaii in the central Pacific Ocean. |
 | | The United States also holds several other territories, districts and possessions, notably the federal district of the District of Columbia, which is the nation's capital, and several overseas insular areas, the most significant of which are Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. |
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