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Fryday 21 Juin 2019

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The Unitit States o Americae (Inglis: United States of America), commonly referred tae as the Unitit States (Inglis: United States, U.S.) or Americae (Inglis: America), is a constitutional federal republic componed o 50 states, a federal destrict, five major sel-govrening territories, an various possessions. Forty-aicht o the fifty states an the federal destrict are contiguous an locatit in North Americae atween Canadae an Mexico. The state o Alaska is in the northwast corner o North Americae, bordered bi Canadae tae the east an athort the Bering Strait frae Roushie tae the wast. The state o Hawaii is an airchipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered aboot the Paceefic Ocean an the Caribbean Sea. Nine time zones are covered. The geografie, climate an wildlife o the kintra are extremely diverse.

At 3.8 million squerr miles (9.8 million km²) an wi ower 324 million fowk, the Unitit States is the warld's fowert-lairgest kintra bi tot aurie (an fowerth-lairgest bi laund aurie) an the third-maist populous. It is ane o the warld's maist ethnically diverse an multicultural naitions, an is hame tae the warld's lairgest immigrant population. Urbanisation climbed tae oweer 80% in 2010 an leads tae growin megaregions. The kintra's caipital is Washington, D.C. an its lairgest ceety is New York Ceety; the ither major metropolitan auries, aw wi aroond five million or mair indwallers, are Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas, Philadelphia, Houston, Miami, an Atlanta.

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Joko Widodo is re-electit Preses o Indonesie, an his pairty, PDI-P, wins the lairgest share o legislative votes.
The Netherlands, representit bi Duncan Laurence wi the sang "Arcade", wins the Eurovision Sang Contest.

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On this day

21 Juin:

1503 – Battle of Elmakulak (az; tr): Shah Ismail I won victory over Sultan Murad Bayandur (az).
1788 – New Hampshire becomes the 9t State tae ratify the Unitit States Constitution.
1898 – The Unitit States takes the Paceefic island o Guam frae Spain.
1945 – Warld War II: The Battle o Okinawa (en) ends wit victory faer the Allies.
2000 – Scotland repeals "Section 28", a law which banned "promotin" homosexuality.

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