Remove spaces in Records stored in DB

Hello,
Is it possible to do a replace of certain values in the db.
eg. In the country Column, instead of storing USA, they mistakenly entered " USA" with a space in the first letter.
What I need to accomplish is to update the DB by removing this spaces and storing the correct country name "USA" in every where that this happens in the Country column
Thanks

SQL> select replace(country,' ',null) country
  2    from (select ' USA' country from dual) a;
COU
USA
SQL> or
SQL> select trim(country) country
  2    from (select ' USA' country from dual) a;
COU
USA
SQL>

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