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{{Infobox Country
|country = United States of America
|language = English (de facto), Spanish widely spoken in southwest and Florida|capital = [[WashingtonD.C.|Washington DC]]|pop = 303317,893791,000
|currency = American Dollar ($)
|BW = US|map= <map lat='39.44525647027036' lng='-98.6623687744132' zoom='3' view='0' />|hitch = {{Average}} to {{Good}}<rating country='us' />
}}
'''The United States of America''' as , commonly called '''The U.S.A.''', or simply '''America''' is a country is divided up into consisting of 50 states; for . For the convenience of the common hitchhiker , these states are discussed in detail along with their capitals at the following in their individual pages (see below). The US is bordered by [[Canada]] to the North north and [[Mexico]] to the Southsouth.
Hitching, like everything else in America, varies greatly depending on what type of area and what part of the country you are passing through. In general you can get rides fairly easily if you hitchhike the right way; in fact, often you can find more than just rides, such as offers for free meals, invitations to homes and parties, etc.
== Food Transportation system ==== Drink ==It is often possible to retrieve used cups from the trash at fast food restaurants with "free refill" policies and refill them.
=== Eat Interstates ===The United States has a culture of throwing many useful things and food in the trash[[File:2006-interstate-map. The advent png|right|A map of urban sprawl has the side-effect of creating many opportunities for dumpster diving interstate system in urban areas2006. Note]]An 'interstate', also known as an '''expressway''', '''freeway''', or (confusingly) '''highway''', however that dumpster diving is in a similar sort of gray area as hitchhikinglarge, multilane road that covers vast distances, with local legality depending and passes through major cities. If you aren't planning on going to the particular statecountryside, you probably won's laws, and t need to stray far from the prevalent attitudes of local law enforcement officersinterstate system.
Interstates are designated on maps by "I-..." and have road signs [http://hitchwiki.org/en/File:InterstateSign.svg#file like this]. Even-numbered routes run from west to east and are numbered from south to north. For example, [[I-10]] runs across the south from [[L.A.]] to [[Jacksonville, FL]], and I-90 across the North from [[Seattle]] to [[Boston]]. Likewise, odd-numbered expressways start with [[I-5]] along the west coast (Seattle to L.A.) and I-95 along the east coast ([[Maine]] to [[Miami]]).
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[[de:Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika]]
[[es:Estados Unidos]]
[[fr:États-Unis d'Amérique]]