#Colony  one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
  supertype:  #geographical_area__geographic_area__geographical_region__geographic_region  a demarcated area of the Earth
  instance:  #Connecticut.Colony  #Delaware.Colony  #Georgia.Colony  #Maryland.Colony  #Massachusetts_Bay_Colony  #New_Hampshire.Colony  #New_Jersey.Colony  #New_York.Colony  #North_Carolina.Colony  #Pennsylvania.Colony  #Rhode_Island.Colony  #South_Carolina.Colony  #Virginia.Colony
  part of:  #USA__United_States_of_America__United_States__America__US__U.S.__U.S.A.  North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
     part of:  #North_America  a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
        part of:  #northern_hemisphere  the hemisphere north of the equator
        part of:  #western_hemisphere__westernhemisphere__occident__New_World  the hemisphere that includes North and South America
        part of:  #the_Americas__America  North and South America

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