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United States usually refers to the United States of America. It may also mean any of the following:

Countries

Current

• The United Mexican States, also the Mexican United States^[1] (Estados Unidos Mexicanos in Spanish) is 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, the name of Brazil between 1889 and 1968
• United States of Central America (informal name), more properly known as the United Provinces of Central America and the Federal Republic of Central America (through several name changes), a defunct 19th century federation of the nations 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 States of Stellaland, a short-lived political union of Goshen and Stellaland proper in southern Africa
• 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 Africa, a political concept/proposal, similar to the United States of Europe
• United States of China, a political concept of a federalized China modeled after the United States that was once advocated before the unification of China by Chiang Kai-shek. See also Federal Republic of China
• United States of Europe, a political concept for a single European state.
• United States of North America, a name suggested by United North America for the proposed union of the USA and Canada under the current US Constitution.
• United States of South America, a dream of a strong federation in South America by Simón Bolívar
• United States of Greater Austria was a successor state to the Austro-Hungarian Empire proposed by Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• The United States of the West created by the admission of the European countries as states into the United States of America as satirically advocated by Regis Debray in his paper Empire 2.0
• United States of Australia, a name suggested before the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Fictional

• United States of Earth in the TV series Futurama
• United States of Mexamericanada, or just "Mexamericanada", a satirical reference in 21st century politics
• The United States of North America is a fictitious country in science fiction text adventure A Mind Forever Voyaging, set in the year 2031.
  • Various S.F. writings, such as those of James P. Hogan, formed from the union of the U.S.A., Canada, the Bahamas, and other neighboring countries.
• United States of Africa (Star Trek), one of the component governments of United Earth, in Star Trek canon

Other

• SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever built
• USS United States, four ships built for the United States Navy
• The United States of America (band), a 1960s musical group
• United States (TV series), a half-hour comedy-drama on NBC in 1980
• United States Live, a 1983 multimedia performance piece by artist Laurie Anderson
• The United States of Leland, a 2004 movie
• "United States of Whatever", a song by Liam Lynch on his album Fake Songs
• "United States" is the name of a Smashing Pumpkins song from their 2007 album Zeitgeist.
• List of all pages beginning with "United States"
• List of all pages beginning with "United States of America"

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