EE.UU
United Statesnote 2 (in English, United States, and its abbreviation is US), note 3 officially United States of America (United States of America, being its acronym EUA),
sovereign country constituted in republic federal constitutional constituted by fifty states and a federal district. Most of the country is located in the center of North America - where its forty-eight contiguous states are located and Washington DC, the district of the capital - between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, borders Canada to the north and Mexico to the south.The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, bordering Canada to the east and separated from Russia to the west by the Bering Strait.