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Exactly as it says on the tin. If a country is given a fortune enough change in it's history, like less instability/more plausible expansion/better infrastructure/ educated and greater population, could it surpass America.

Potential candidates could include Brazilian Empire, Gran Colombia, united provinces if la Plata/ greater Argentina, larger and less racist South Africa, Meiji China, a wealthier India ,industrialized Russian empire, etc. Not that all these could exist at the same time, of course.

Now, something that must be noted are the factors that made the US a superpower.
  1. A large, educated population.
  2. Not having any (long lasting) political instability.
  3. Great resources in coal, arable land, oil, precious metals,etc.
  4. Being already a great power in it's region without any real competition to distract it's focus from the rest of the world.
I am not sure if size, really matters so much as what resources their are, as a lot of the major industrial areas in the US are or were around the Midwest or great lakes, with the arable land being in the Midwest as well.

The rules are that the US must exist with the same states except Alaska and Hawaii.
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