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This depends on what you consider the birth of the U.S. If you measure from the Declaration of Independence (1776), then it's 229 years old.
However, what followed the war for independence was actually a loose and ill-fated confederacy that fell apart because nothing compelled the states to cooperate and, say, fund an army. The United States as we know it today really started with the Constitution, which went into effect in 1789, making the current republic 216 years old.
England recognized the United States in 1783, so if you ask them the U.S. is 222 years old.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Constitution http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800076684/details (the movie, itself, has the information on 1783) - Anonymous6 years ago
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Source(s): united states: https://shortly.im/OaI7O - Anonymous7 years ago
229
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- Anonymous6 years ago
238
- 5 years ago
since officially 1776 -
how ever, America was founded by the spainards/europeans in 1492
but the chinese general of gz in china traded and traveled roughly 1,000 years before the date of 1492
and again in 1421
before christopher colombus. it was erik the red a viking who had discovered America