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A Name Already in Print Before the Declaration

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Geography Atlas. "A Name Already in Print Before the Declaration." Accessed September 9, 2026. https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/articles/united-states-a-name-already-in-print-before-the-declaration.

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Geography Atlas. (n.d.). A Name Already in Print Before the Declaration. Retrieved September 9, 2026, from https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/articles/united-states-a-name-already-in-print-before-the-declaration

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@misc{geographyatlas-a-name-already-in-print-before-the-decla,
  author = {Geography Atlas},
  title = {A Name Already in Print Before the Declaration},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://geography.interactiveatlas.org/articles/united-states-a-name-already-in-print-before-the-declaration},
  note = {Accessed September 9, 2026}
}

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Names of the United States (Wikipedia)

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The first known publication of the phrase "United States of America" was in an anonymous essay in The Virginia Gazette newspaper in Williamsburg, Virginia, on April 6, 1776.

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