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 | | The United States of America (U.S.A.), also referred to as the '\United States (U.S. America¹, or the States', is a federal republic in North America and the Pacific Ocean (the islands of Hawaii, and the Aleutians). |
 | | 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 and the United States Virgin Islands. |
 | | The social structure of the United States is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence on the rest of the nation. |
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