The United States of America (USA) - commonly known as the United States (U.S./US) or, simply, America - is a country comprising 50 states, a federal district (the District of Columbia), five major self-governing territories, and various smaller possessions located mostly in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
Forty-eight states are located contiguously within North America - bordered by Canada and the Great Lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario) to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Alaska, the forty-ninth, is bordered by the Arctic Ocean on the north, Canada to the east, the Gulf of Alaska to the south, and the Bering Sea to the west. And Hawai'i, the fiftieth (including Oahu), lies in the north-central Pacific Ocean.
At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2), the United States is the world's third or fourth largest country by total area; and is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe. (It is also comparable in size to the nation-continent of Australia.) With a population of over 327 million people, the U.S. is the third most populous country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the most populous city is New York City.
In The World Of Thunderbirds[]
Several International Rescue missions take place (in full, or in part) in America, including:
- City of Fire
- Martian Invasion
- Terror in New York City
- 30 Minutes After Noon
- The Impostors
- The Duchess Assignment
- Thunderbirds Are Go
- Thunderbird 6
Trivia[]
With reference to the episode The Impostors, International Rescue has at least six field agents based in the United States:
- Alaska
- California
- Hawai'ian Islands (presumably on the island of Oahu)
- New York City
- North Dakota
- Southern States region (Jeremiah Tuttle)