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About country.

The  United States of America  (commonly called the  United States , the  U.S. , the USA ,  America , and the  States ) is a  federal   constitutional republic  consisting of  fifty states  and a  federal district . The country is situated mostly in central  North America , where its  forty-eight contiguous states  and  Washington, D.C. , the  capital district , lie between the  Pacific  and  Atlantic Oceans ,  bordered  by  Canada  to the north and  Mexico to the south. The state of  Alaska  is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and  Russia  to the west across the  Bering Strait . The state of  Hawaii  is an archipelago  in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses  several territories  in the Pacific and  Caribbean .

United States of America

Motto:  In God We Trust   (official) E Pluribus Unum   (traditional) ( Latin : Out of Many, One)

Anthem:  " The Star-Spangled Banner "

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Contemporary era

September 11 attacks   on  World Trade Center

Under President  George H. W. Bush , the United States took a lead role in the UN–sanctioned Gulf War . The longest economic expansion in modern U.S. history—from March 1991 to March 2001—encompassed the  Bill Clinton  administration and the  dot-com bubble . [78]  A  civil lawsuit  and  sex scandal  led to  Clinton's impeachment  in 1998, but he remained in office. The 2000 presidential election , one of the closest in American history, was resolved by a  U.S. Supreme Court decision — George W. Bush , son of George H. W. Bush, became president.

On  September 11, 2001 ,  al-Qaeda  terrorists struck the  World Trade Center  in New York City and  The Pentagon  near Washington, D.C., killing nearly three thousand people. In response, the  Bush administration  launched the global  War on Terror ,  invading Afghanistan  and removing the  Taliban  government and al-Qaeda training camps.  Taliban insurgents  continue to fight a guerrilla war. In 2002, the Bush administration began to press for regime change in  Iraq  on controversial grounds . [79]

Forces led by the U.S.   invaded Iraq   in 2003, ousting  Saddam Hussein . In 2005,  Hurricane Katrina  caused severe destruction along much of the  Gulf Coast , devastating  New Orleans . In 2008, amid a global  economic recession , the first African American president,  Barack Obama , was elected. Major  health care  and  financial system  reforms were enacted two years later. In 2011, a raid by  Navy SEALs  in  Pakistan   killed  al-Qaeda leader  Osama bin Laden . The  Iraq War  officially ended with the pullout of the remaining U.S. troops from the country in December 2011.

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