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United States of America is a country located in North America. Its capital city is Washington D.C., with other major cities including New York and Los Angeles. With a population of approximately 335M, the main language spoken is English. The country covers an area of 9,525,067 km². The official currency is the United States dollar ($). Traffic drives on the right side.
The US has produced more Nobel laureates than any other country — over 400 across all prize categories.
Washington D.C. serves as the political, cultural and economic heart of United States of America, positioned in North America. As the seat of government and often the most populous city, it concentrates the country's main institutions, universities and cultural landmarks. Beyond the capital, major cities include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago — each a hub of regional culture, economy and history. Washington D.C. was designed by French military engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant in 1791 on a diagonal grid overlaid onto a rectilinear street plan, with the Capitol building placed on the highest point — a layout conceived to make the legislature visually dominant over the executive branch and still legible in the city's geography today.
With a population of approximately 335M, United States of America is a vibrant society with a rich mix of traditions and communities. The official language is English, which reflects the country's cultural heritage and connects it with a wide international community. Internationally, United States of America is reached via the dialling code +1. Americans built the world's most durable civic religion around their founding documents — the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are displayed behind bulletproof glass in the National Archives as secular scripture — and the practice of political self-reinvention, the idea that identity is chosen rather than inherited, remains the country's most exported cultural product.
United States of America spans 9,525,067 km², in the North America subregion of Americas. Geographically centred around 38.0°N, 97.0°W, the country offers a diverse range of landscapes shaped by its location, climate and geology. Road traffic follows the right-hand rule, in line with surrounding Americas convention.
The official currency is the United States dollar ($), used for everyday transactions and commerce throughout the country. United States of America's economy is shaped by its geography, natural resources and trade relationships. Business and daily life operate under UTC-12:00, aligning the country with its regional neighbours.
The emblematic dish of United States of America is Hamburger. Food culture in United States of America is deeply tied to local identity — shared meals and markets are central to daily life and social gatherings across the country.
American Football / Baseball holds a special place in the heart of United States of America's national identity. The Super Bowl, played each February, is the most-watched annual television event in American history — and the game itself is almost secondary to the halftime show and advertising market, with 30-second commercial slots exceeding $7 million, a commercialisation of sport so total that it has become its own cultural phenomenon.
The highest point in United States of America is Denali, rising to 6,190 metres above sea level. The Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon to a depth of 1,800 metres over six million years, exposing 2-billion-year-old basement rock and creating a geological cross-section of North American time that the Havasupai people have inhabited for 800 years — and whose course has been so heavily dammed that it no longer reliably reaches the sea.