United States of America
Details
- Names
United States
United States of America
Estados Unidos de América
États-Unis d'Amérique
Verenigde Staten
Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika
USA
US
ISO840
American
- Place Type
- nation
- Description
- Settled 40,000 years ago by ancestors of Amerindians; diverse cultures developed; Spanish, French, British and others settled here from 16th cen., native cultures were largely destroyed; nation expanded westward through 19th cen.; had Civil War in 1860s; official language is English, though a sizable minority speaks Spanish, and various other languages are also spoken.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- CIA, World Fact Book (1995); Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Cassell's German Dictionary (1982); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Engels Woordenboek (1987); ISO Country Codes (1996); ISO Handbook (1988); National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-); Times Atlas of the World (1994); UN Terminology Bulletin 345 (1993); UN Terminology Bulletin 347 (1997); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Active
Arakawa Shusaku (Japanese, active United States, 1936-2010)
Hamaguchi Yôzô (Japanese, active France, United States, and Japan, 1909-2000)
Hu Nianzu (Chinese, born 1927)
Mauricio Lasansky (American, born Argentina, 1914-2012)
Dinh Q. Lê (American, born Vietnam, born 1968)
Krishna Reddy (Indian, active India, France, and United States, 1925–2018)
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