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Nicknames: The Last Frontier, Land of the Midnight Sun, Land of the Noonday Moon, Seward's Folly Capital: Juneau Governor: Michael J. Dunleavy (R) Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer (R)
The U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets, also known as the Background Notes, [1] are a series of works by the United States Department of State.These publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.
The Electoral College, every four years, elects the President and Vice President of the United States based on the popular vote in each state and the District of Columbia. Each state's number of votes in the Electoral College is equal to its number of members in the Senate plus members in the House of Representatives. [5]
New Jersey is the most densely populated state. New York is home to the most populous city in the country, and ranks 8th among the states in density. Despite a small population, Vermont has fairly average population density because of its small area.
The second largest state, Texas, has only 40% of the total area of the largest state, Alaska. Rhode Island is the smallest state by total area and land area. San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous U.S. and is larger than each of the nine smallest states; it is larger than the four smallest states combined.
The BEA defined GDP by state as "the sum of value added from all industries in the state." [1] Nominal GDP does not take into account differences in the cost of living in different countries, and the results can vary greatly from one year to another based on fluctuations in the exchange rates of the country's currency.
Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state. [ a ] Since 1920, the "total population" of the United States has been considered the population of all the States and the District of Columbia; territories and other possessions were counted as additional ...