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The purpose, rather than to standardize state abbreviations per se, was to make room in a line of no more than 23 characters for the city, the state, and the ZIP code. [4] Since 1963, only one state abbreviation has changed.
FIPS state codes were numeric and two-letter alphabetic codes defined in U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard Publication ("FIPS PUB") 5-2 to identify U.S. states and certain other associated areas. The standard superseded FIPS PUB 5-1 on May 28, 1987, and was superseded on September 2, 2008, by ANSI standard INCITS 38:2009. [1]
Official name: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (also known as the state of Pennsylvania) Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: PA; ISO 3166-2 code: US-PA; Internet second-level domain: .pa.us; Nicknames Liberty Bell State; Independence State; Keystone State [1] Quaker State; Adjectival: Pennsylvania; Demonym: Pennsylvanian
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see Pennsylvania (disambiguation). "Penn." redirects here. For other uses, see Penn. State in the United States Pennsylvania Pennsilfaani (Pennsylvania Dutch) State Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Flag Seal Nickname: The ...
Bay Stater (official term used by state government) and Citizen of the Commonwealth (identifier used in state law) [31] Massachusettsian, [32] Massachusite, [33] [34] Masshole (derogatory [35] as an exonym; however, it can be affectionate when applied as an endonym [36]) Michigan: Michiganian
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I disagree with the style of spelling out a state. It reads easier if abbreviations are used. And, at the very least, if you're going to spell out a state name, enclose it with commas. As a writer, it looks a lot better. --Write_On_1983 talk | contribs 18:47, 28 April 2007 (UTC) I've been using the abbreviations in infoboxes when the full state ...
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