The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States also asserts sovereignty over five major island territories and various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean.[i] It is a megadiverse country, with the world's third-largest land area[c] and third-largest population, exceeding 341 million.[j] 美利堅合眾國（英語：United States of America，縮寫：USA），簡稱美國、美利堅（英語：America）或合眾國（英語：United States，縮寫：US），是位於北美洲的聯邦制共和國。其由50個州、首都華盛頓哥倫比亞特區和326個印第安人保留地組成[17]；在聯邦外，其主張對5個離岸自治領土及若干外島擁有主權[註 3]。美國領土面積為9,372,610平方公里[10][註 4]，為北美第二（次於加拿大），世界第三或第四[19]。截至2020年初，美國總人口約為3.3億人[20]，是世界第三人口大國[21][22]、也是人口最多的發達國家、以及美洲人口最多的國家。美國有着來自世界各地的大量移民，是世界上民族和文化最多元的國家之一[23]。美國國土的地形與氣候複雜，生物多樣性齊全[24]。
English lyrics 英文歌詞 Ⅰ O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? Ⅱ On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream, 'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Ⅲ And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a Country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Ⅳ O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation! Blest with vict'ry and peace may the heav'n rescued land Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto - "In God is our trust," And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
