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Noun
S: (n) United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A. (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
S: (n) Pacific Northwest (a region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia)
S: (n) Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)
S: (n) New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)
S: (n) Mid-Atlantic states (a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland)
S: (n) South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)
S: (n) Sunbelt (states in the south and southwest that have a warm climate and tend to be politically conservative)
S: (n) North (the region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line)
S: (n) Dakota (the area of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota)
S: (n) Alaska, Last Frontier, AK (a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union) "Alaska is the largest state in the United States"
S: (n) District of Columbia, D.C., DC (the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington; chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia)
S: (n) Florida, Sunshine State, Everglade State, FL, Fla. (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
S: (n) Kentucky, Bluegrass State, KY, Ken. (a state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses)
S: (n) Louisiana Purchase (territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million; extends from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada)
S: (n) Louisiana, Pelican State, LA, La. (a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)
S: (n) Mississippi, Magnolia State, MS, Miss. (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)
S: (n) Missouri, Show Me State, MO, Mo. (a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union)
S: (n) Wyoming, Equality State, WY, Wyo. (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)
S: (n) Connecticut, Connecticut River (a river in the northeastern United States; flows south from northern New Hampshire along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont and through Massachusetts and Connecticut where it empties into Long Island Sound)
S: (n) Great Lakes (a group of five large, interconnected lakes in central North America)
S: (n) Mississippi, Mississippi River (a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico)
S: (n) Missouri, Missouri River (the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis) "The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers together form the third longest river in the world"
S: (n) New River (a river in the southeastern United States that flows northward from North Carolina to West Virginia where it empties into the Kanawha River)
S: (n) Niagara, Niagara River (a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York)
S: (n) Organization of American States, OAS (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)