USA is an abbreviation for United States of America, and the is used because the proper noun is a noun phrase whose main noun is the ordinary noun States. The definite article is also used in other country names (and their abbreviations) that are phrases made from ordinary nouns, such as the United Kingdom or the People's Republic of China. More @Wikipedia
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