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The United States of
America
 United
States of America (popularly referred to as the US or as America) is a federal
republic on the continent of North America consisting of 48 contiguous states
and the non-contiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii. The
United States of America began as an immigrant society, and it has continued to
be a mingling of immigrants ever since. Even Native Americans, the first people
to live in North America, descended from people who arrived from Asia many
thousands of years ago. Since 1820, 63 million immigrants have arrived in the
United States. Never in the history of the world has a country been
braided together from so many strands of people arriving with different
languages, histories, and cultures.
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