The first country to recognize the United States as a sovereign nation and also the first to sign a treaty with the fledgling U. S. government waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas....... Morocco - an Islamic country.
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Actually it was France but...
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Wikipedia: Moroccan-Ametican Treaty of Friendship.... 'December 1777,Moroccan sultan Muhammad III included the United States of America in a list of countries to which Morocco's ports were open. Morocco thus became the first country whose head of state publicly recognized the new United States.' Soooo.... I guess it's just semantics?
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Actually, it was France but...