United is used in a countries name, when any number of states or regions are combined to make a united Country. Countries with united in their name include:
- United States of America (USA/ U.S./ United States)
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK/ United Kingdom)
- United Arab Emirates (UAE)
- United Mexican States (Official Mexico's name)
Communities
Travel
- United (Bus), a Bus and coach service that operated in the UK, until the 1990s when they merged with the Arriva Group.
Sports
"United" forms part of many association football teams names, usually, and originally in England, when two or more clubs merged and became united. The first club to use the term is believed to be Hanover United, formed in 1873[1]. Below is a list of professional clubs in order of when the name was first used, with the year it first came into use next to it;
- Sheffield United (1889)
- Newcastle United (1892)
- Scunthorpe United (1899)
- West Ham United (1900)
- Manchester United (1902)
- Carlisle United (1903)
- Southend United (1906)
- Leeds United (1919)
- Hereford United (1924)
- Rotherham United (1925)
- Peterborough United (1934)
- Colchester United (1937)
- Hartlepool United (1977)
- Hayes & Yeading United (2007)
Outside of English football, some other professional clubs in countries around the world have used United in their name while playing the same sport, this includes;
- Ayr United (1910)
- Dundee United (1923)
- D.C. United (1995)
- Tampere United (1998)
- Newcastle United Jets (2000)
- Airdrie United (2002)
- Adelaide United (2003)
- KVSK United (2003)
- Gold Coast United (2008)
- Drogheda United
- Galway United
The term has also been used by rugby union clubs:
- United Rugby Club (2005)
- Rugby United, the old name of Rugby Town F.C. (1956)
Television
- United!, a show that aired on BBC1 (none of the episodes survive)
- "United", a fourth season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
Politics
- One of several political parties around the world called the United Party
- United Front (disambiguation), a Marxist tactic and the name of many political alliances
- UNITED for Intercultural Action, the biggest European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees
- United and uniting churches are churches formed from the merger or other form of union of two or more different Protestant denominations
Music
- United (Phoenix album)
- United (Dream Evil album)
- United (Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell album)
- United (Commodores album)
- United (Marian Gold album)
- "United", a song by Judas Priest, from the album British Steel
- "United", a song by Prince Ital Joe featuring Marky Mark
- Hillsong United (band), the band of Hillsong United (the Hillsong Church youth ministry) that has released several albums
Other
- United and uniting churches
- Hillsong United, the youth ministry of Hillsong Church
- United North Piha Lifeguard Service
- United, a brand name chocolate biscuit sold in the UK
- United Technologies Corporation, an American multi-national
- United Telecommunications, a telephone company that was purchased by Sprint, and was later spun off as Embarq.
References
- ^ Collett, Mike (2003). The Complete Record of the FA Cup. p. 325. ISBN 1899807-19-5.
See also
- Unified, a disambiguation page
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