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Northeast is the northeastern quadrant of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, and is located north of East Capitol Street and east of North Capitol Street. Northeast neighborhoods include Brentwood, Brookland, Ivy City, Marshall Heights, Pleasant Hill, Stanton Park, Trinidad,... Michigan Park, Riggs Park, Fort Totten, Fort Lincoln, Edgewood, Deanwood, Kenilworth, and Woodridge, as well as much of Capitol Hill. The population of Northeast is predominantly African-American, particularly east of the Anacostia River. It is also home to a large number of small Catholic institutions, mostly in the Brookland neighborhood, including The Catholic University of America, St. Anselm's Abbey School, Trinity University, the Franciscan Monastery, Whitefriars Hall, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, and the headquarters of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Two large public gardens are located below the waistline of the Anacostia River in Northeast: the United States National Arboretum and Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.
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The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories... in the Pacific and Caribbean. At 3.79 million square miles and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.
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