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The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
Modern two-letter abbreviated codes for the states and territories originated in October 1963, with the issuance of Publication 59: Abbreviations for Use with ZIP Code, three months after the Post Office introduced ZIP codes in July 1963.
The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify states and counties, is provided with each entry. [10] Maryland's code is 24, which when combined with any county code would be written as 24XXX. [11] [12] The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county.
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory. [1] [2]
An enlargeable map of the 3,143 counties and county equivalents located in the 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. as of 2020. The 100 county equivalents in the U.S. territories are not on this map. There are 3,244 counties and county equivalents in the United States.
The two highest median household income counties in the nation – Loudoun and Fairfax County, Virginia – are components of the MSA (and No. 3 is Howard County, officially in Baltimore's sphere but strongly connected with Washington's); measured in this way, Alexandria ranks 10th among municipalities in the region – 11th if Howard is ...
An enlargeable map of the state of Maryland. Names Common name: Maryland. Pronunciation: / ˈ m ɛr əl ə n d / ⓘ Official name: State of Maryland; Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: MD; ISO 3166-2 code: US-MD; Internet second-level domain: .md.us; Nicknames America in Miniature [1] Chesapeake State [2] Cockade State [2] Crab State ...
Map of the United States with Maryland highlighted. Maryland is a state located in the Southern United States. [1] As of the 2020 United States census, Maryland is the 18th-most populous state with 6,177,224 inhabitants and the ninth-smallest by land area, spanning 9,707.24 square miles (25,141.6 km 2) of land. [2]