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With any PoD after the beginning of the first Washington Administration under the 1789 constitution, how can we have the U.S. acquire a collection of colonies on multiple continents/hemispheres several times larger and more populous than its OTL colonial empire in the PI, Hawaii, and other parts of Pacific and Caribbean.

In OTL, after the annexation of the PI, around 1900, the US had a population of unincorporated subjects of about 9 million.

This was slightly larger than the 8 million colonial subjects that Portugal had.

However, the U.S. still ranked behind:
1) Britain, with 341 million subjects exclusive of the metropole and the white dominions
2) France with 40 million unincorporated subjects, excluding Algeria. It's 45 million, including a million-ish French citizens if we count Algeria.
3) Netherlands, with 38.2 million colonial subjects
4) Germany, with 24.1 million colonial subjects
5) Japan with 16 million Korean
and Taiwanese subjects
6) Belgium, with 15 million subjects in the Congo.

The challenge, if you accept it, is to move the US to 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th place, so that it is in a
league with, or above France, Netherlands or Germany.
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