Flying Waving United States World National Flag

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The United States of America  is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.

The Flying Waving United States World National Flag consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows of six stars  alternating with rows of five stars. The fifty stars on the flag represent the 50 states and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen colonies that rebelled against the British monarchy and became the first states in the Union. Nicknames for the Flying Waving United States World National Flag include the "Stars and Stripes", "Old Glory," and "The Star-Spangled Banner" .

The Flying Waving United States World National Flag is one of the nation's most widely recognized symbols. Within the Flying Waving United States World National Flags are frequently displayed not only on public buildings but on private residences. The Flying Waving United States World National Flag is a common motif on decals for car windows, and clothing ornaments such as badges and lapel pins. Throughout the world the Flying Waving United States World National Flag has been used in public discourse to refer to the United States, not only as a nation, state, government, and set of policies, but also as a set of ideals.