United States (Carpe Diem)

The United States of America(also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the U.S.A., or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. Situated mainly on the North American continent, the fifty-four contiguous states are commonly referred to as the 'lower 46', while the remaining four states are non-contiguous, the state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and the Soviet Union to the west across the Bering Strait. The states of Hawaii and Mariana are archipelagos in the mid-Pacific, and the state of Puerto Rico is located in the Caribbean Sea.

Administrative Divisions
The United States is a federation composed of 50 states and a federal district.