United States

The United States of America 🇺🇸 (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is the country where the Apple Computer Company (predecessor to Apple Inc.) was founded in 1976.

Statistics
The United States consists of 50, a , five major , and. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2), it is the world's, depending on the inclusion of coastal and territorial waters.

is located in central North America between Canada and Mexico. With an estimated population of over 329 million, the U.S. is the in the world. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the is California, where Apple is headquartered.

Apple in the United States
As of December 2022, there were 273 Apple retail stores in the United States, more than any other country. On May 30, 2020, stores in the United States were looted in the wake of over the. Many were also temporarily closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. On December 3, 2022, the newest U.S. store, the Apple American Dream, was opened within the shopping complex in.