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Is the United States a Country True or False

“The United States is a country”
True
Confidence: High Checked on May 9, 2026

Summary

The United States is recognized as an independent sovereign state with its own territory, government, and international standing, and is listed among the world's countries by official U.S. sources. It meets the standard definition of a country.

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state.gov
  • Independent States in the World - United States Department of State

    NOTES Note 1: In this listing, the term “independent state” refers to a people politically organized into a sovereign state with a definite territory recognized as independent by the US. Note 2: Geopolitical Entities, Names, and Codes (GENC) Standard two-letter and three-letter codes. GENC is the replacement standard for FIPS 10-4 and is the U.S. Government profile of the ISO 3166 international country code standard.

emilms.fema.gov
  • Sovereign Nations

    Federally Recognized Tribal Governments are sovereign nations · Sovereignty is a legal word for an ordinary concept—the authority to self-govern. Hundreds of treaties, along with the Supreme Court, the President, and Congress, have repeatedly affirmed that tribal nations retain their inherent ...

2001-2009.state.gov
  • The United States and International Law

    Thank you very much for coming tonight. It's a privilege to be here in The Hague, before this distinguished audience, to give a speech about the United States and international law · Some of you may think it rather bold of me to come to a city renowned for its institutions of international ...

congress.gov
  • International Law and Agreements: Their Effect upon U.S. Law | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

    First, a nation that is a persistent objector to a particular requirement of customary international law is exempt from it.261 Second, the United States can exempt itself from customary international law requirements by passing a contradictory statute under the "last-in-time" rule.262 As a result, the effect of customary international law that conflicts with other domestic law appears limited. In examining countries' behavior to determine whether opinio juris is present, courts might look to different sources, including relevant treaties, unanimous or near-unanimous declarations by the General

govinfo.gov
  • Discovery in International Civil Litigation: A Guide for Judges

    In the United States, there are a limited number of treaties and · laws that address the taking of evidence in international disputes. The · most significant are the Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence · Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters, a multilateral treaty detailing · procedures for the taking of evidence among signatory countries...

history.state.gov
  • Countries - Office of the Historian

    Over time, additional details will be added for each country, such as information on the United States consular presence. Finally, this section also provides historical information on some territorial entities that the United States has not recognized or with which it does not have diplomatic ...

mpm.edu
  • Sovereignty | Milwaukee Public Museum

    We speak of countries such as the United States as being sovereign political powers because they are completely independent of any other political entity. Political scientists often refer to this as absolute sovereignty. The United States possesses absolute sovereignty within its own borders, but ...

en.wikipedia.org
  • List of states with limited recognition - Wikipedia

    A total of 56 states, including Germany, Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom, maintain some form of unofficial mission in Taiwan. Kosovo, Northern Cyprus, Abkhazia, Transnistria, the Sahrawi Republic, Somaliland, and Palestine also host informal diplomatic missions, or maintain special delegations or other informal missions abroad. The following entities are excluded from the list above: The Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM) is considered a sovereign non-state entity, as it claims neither statehood nor territory.

  • List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies

    These lists of historical unrecognized or partially recognized states give an overview of extinct geopolitical entities that wished to be recognized as sovereign states, but did not enjoy worldwide diplomatic recognition. The entries listed here had de facto control over significant claimed ...

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