Estados Unidos

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son New York, Los Angeles, Chicago — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. 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.

El idioma oficial es inglés, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, los Estados Unidos se contactan mediante el código +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.

Los Estados Unidos comparten sus fronteras con México, Canada. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC-12:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

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 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.