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United States of America (Location)

General

The United States was the origin point of the Human Virus Zoonosis. It had a population of over 300 million before the outbreak but was one of the countries most effected by HVZ. The country is made up of 50 states, all of which were infected within days of the Virus' escape from the CDC headquarters.

Geography

The United States shares land borders with Canada (to the north) and Mexico (to the south), and a territorial water border with Russia in the northwest, and two territorial water borders in the southeast between Florida and Cuba, and Florida and the Bahamas. The contiguous forty-eight states are otherwise bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Atlantic Ocean on the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the southeast. Alaska borders the Pacific Ocean to the south and southwest, the Bering Strait to the west, and the Arctic Ocean to the north, while Hawaii lies far to the southwest of the mainland in the Pacific Ocean. The United States has varied geography ranging from the great plains to the rocky mountains.