As the study of how geographical factors influence international relations, geopolitics may be helpful to political science majors. While many government courses focus on the politics within a country, geopolitics can focus on how a country’s borders may influence surrounding countries, creating power struggles within regions and economic discourse.

The United States of America commonly called the United States, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The 48 contiguous states and the federal district of Washington, D.C. are in first North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in northwestern North America, west of Canada and east of Russia across the Bering Strait, and the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-North Pacific. The country also has five populated and nine unpopulated territories in the Pacific and the Caribbean.

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