Talk:United States (disambiguation)

Federal states
How many countries are federations of states?

Germany, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, ... ?

They do not all have the words "United States" in their names.

Are they all more recent than the USA, or was there a federation of states before 1789? (I have heard of arguments that the Indian tribes, or some of them, were federations) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.222.56 (talk) 00:25, 21 July 2005 (UTC)


 * There's a list on Federation. Not just states -- can also be provinces (Canada), cantons, regions, etc. –Hajor 00:49, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Mexico's constitution says: Estados Unidos Mexicanos — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.75.224.203 (talk) 22:48, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Route to this page
May I suggest that a search for United States takes you to this page, rather than a page about The United States of America. If you search for US you get the US (disambiguation) page. Mr Taz 10:22, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup
Cleanup is required - these aren't all known as "United States"! - maybe split the list of partial match countries into a list article? Widefox ; talk 09:14, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Should the meanings in "the united states are" and "the United States is" be considered two different meanings?
Originally, the term was considered a plural, and simply referred to the states that make up the republic. For example, the Declaration of Independence says "these united states are and of right ought to be..."

It didn't begin to refer to the union as whole, and take a singular verb ("is", rather than "are") until the Civil War.47.139.43.80 (talk) 03:43, 17 March 2019 (UTC)


 * No. The Civil War didn't result in a new country being formed. It's simply a change in grammar rules and perspective, not essence. - BilCat (talk) 08:04, 17 March 2019 (UTC)