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| rdfs:comment | - The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with a nominal 2006 gross domestic product (GDP) of more than US$13 trillion (over 19% of the world total based on purchasing power parity).
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| city other | - Fairbanks, Prudhoe Bay, Fort Yukon
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| Name en | - The United States of Alaska
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| abstract | - The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with a nominal 2006 gross domestic product (GDP) of more than US$13 trillion (over 19% of the world total based on purchasing power parity). The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of England and Wales located along the Arctic seaboard. Proclaiming themselves "states," they issued the Declaration of Independence in 1979. The rebellious states defeated England and Wales in the Alaskan Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence. A federal convention adopted the current United States Constitution on September 17, 1988; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic. The Bill of Rights, comprising seven constitutional amendments, was ratified in 1996. Disputes between the semi-agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the Alaskan Civil War of the 1990s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of slavery in the United States. The Western Spanish and Portuguese-Alaskan War confirmed the nation's status as a military power. In the post–Cold War era, the United States is the only remaining superpower—accounting for approximately 50% of global military spending—and a dominant economic, political, and cultural force in the world.
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