Someone said the U.S.A. is a state?!?!?!?!?

I know a 45-year old woman who says the same thing. All I can say, my friend, is thank gosh most of us really ARE at the top of the food chain, thanks to competent teachers and parents who cared.

Sounds like a question from an ignorant American teen who doesn't know how to look anything up!

Ever hear of a dictionary or encyclopedia?

Since you're online you would've easily been able to find the following info in wiki;

- A sovereign state is a political association with effective internal and external sovereignty over a geographic area and population which is not dependent on, or subject to any other power or state. While in abstract terms a sovereign state can exist without being recognized by other sovereign states, unrecognized states will often find it difficult to exercise full treaty-making powers and engage in diplomatic relations with other sovereign states.

- A federated state, commonly simply referred to as a state, is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federal union.[1] Such states differ from sovereign states, in that they have transferred a portion of their sovereign powers to a federal government.[2] A federated state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory and is a form of regional government.

- A state is a set of institutions that possess the authority to make the rules that govern the people in one or more societies, having internal and external sovereignty over a definite territory. In Max Weber's influential definition, it is that organization that has a "monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory." It thus includes such institutions as the armed forces, civil service or state bureaucracy, courts, and police.

- The nation-state is a certain form of state that derives its political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity for a nation as a sovereign territorial unit.[1] The state is a political and geopolitical entity; the nation is a cultural and/or ethnic entity. The term "nation-state" implies that the two geographically coincide, and this distinguishes the nation state from the other types of state, which historically preceded it.

Yes, the United states is known as a federal state. Give your head a shake!

What you probably didn't know is that the USA is actually just a corporation registered in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and controlled from THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.

Dumb and dumber...

The term state is interchangeable with country. A state such as the United States is a Sovereign state composed of 50 states.(Which are not Sovereign).

USA is a country made of 52 states

I know a college graduate that thought Canada was a U.S. state, and she is nurse (R.N.) *gasps*. I guy at a bar told a girl I was with that he was the prince of Russia and she believed him haha. It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant some people are.

You are a complete moron.

Of course the U.S. is a state you stupid dolt!