United States (disambiguation)

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United States usually refers to the United States of America – a constitutional federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

United States may also refer to:

Countries

United Mexican States, also known as the United States of Mexico, the official name of Mexico

Historical

United States of Belgium, a confederation that existed during the year 1790
Republic of the United States of Brazil (Portuguese: República dos Estados Unidos do Brasil), the official name of Brazil between 1889 and 1937
United States of Brazil, the official name of Brazil between 1937 and 1967
United States of Central America (informal name), or the United Provinces of Central America and the Federal Republic of Central America
United States of Colombia, name held by Colombia between 1863 and 1886
United States of Indonesia, name of the country from 1949 to 1950
United States of the Ionian Islands, former British protectorate from 1815 to 1864
United State of Saurashtra, an Indian state between 1948 and 1956
United States of Stellaland, a short-lived political union of Goshen and Stellaland proper in southern Africa
United State of Travancore and Cochin, the former Indian state of Travancore-Cochin between 1949 and 1950
United States of Venezuela, from 1864 to April 15, 1953

Proposed

United States of Latin Africa, a political entity proposed by Barthélemy Boganda for Central Africa
United States of China, once advocated before the unification of China by Chiang Kai-shek
United States of Europe, a political concept of a single European state
United States of Africa, a political concept similar to the United States of Europe
United States of South America, a proposed federation in South America or Latin America
United States of Greater Austria, a successor state to the Austro-Hungarian Empire proposed by Archduke Franz Ferdinand
United States of Australia, a name suggested before the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia
United States of Poland

Satirical

United States of Canada, a satirically proposed country formed from Canada and the liberal blue states of the U.S., as opposed to Jesusland
United States of Mexamericanada, a satirical reference in 21st century politics
United States of the West, the admission of the European countries as states of the U.S.A., as satirically advocated by Régis Debray in his paper Empire 2.0

In arts and entertainment

The United States of America (band) (1960s)
Titled works:
- United States (TV series), a half-hour comedy-drama on NBC in 1980
- United States Live (1983) by Laurie Anderson
- Albums:
  - United States (album), by Paul Gilbert and Freddie Nelson
  - United States, by Ian McLagan
- "United States" (1990s), Smashing Pumpkins song from album Zeitgeist
- "United States of Eurasia", a song by English alternative rock band Muse

Fictional countries

The United States of Southern Africa (USSA), successor state to South Africa in Arthur C. Clarke's science-fiction novel 2061: Odyssey Three
United States of Japan, in the TV series Code Geass
United States of Earth, in the TV series Futurama
The United States of North America (USNA), a fictitious country in the 1985 science fiction computer text adventure A Mind Forever Voyaging, set in the year 2031
James P. Hogan's union of the U.S.A., Canada, The Bahamas, and other neighboring countries
The United States of the New Continent (USN), from the Front Mission series

Vehicles

SS United States, a luxury passenger liner built in 1952
USS United States, several ships built for the United States Navy
United States, an executive railcoach built for President Abraham Lincoln

Other

U.S. states, the primary constituent entities of the United States of America