United States (Napoleon's World)

The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A, the U.S., or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprised of fifty states and a federal district. Forty eight states as well as the federal district of Washington, D.C. are located on the North American mainland, referred to as the "contiguous 48" or the "upper 48." Its other two states, Cuba and Puerto Rico, are on islands in the Caribbean Sea. Mainland America is bordered to the northeast by the French colony of Canada and to the northwest by Alaska, and America shares its southern border exclusively with Mexico.