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Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
This is a list of demonyms used to designate the citizens of specific states, federal district, and territories of the United States of America. Official English-language demonyms are established by the United States Government Publishing Office (USGPO); [ 1 ] however, many other terms are in common use.
This name was retained from a former name, of feminist Amelia Bloomer. Bloomer was captured from Confederates in 1862, but then served in the U.S. Navy from 1863–65. USS Pocahontas (1852), a screw sloop commissioned in 1860 and, USS Pocahontas (YT-266), a harbor tug commissioned in 1942, both named for the famed Native American princess ...
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
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]
The baby name experts at Nameberry have a handy list of more patriotic baby names, shared below. Read on for Liberty, Glory, Freedom and many more. Austin. Banner. Bell. Belle. Betsy. Blue. Boston ...
This is an alphabetical list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas.It comprises three regions, Northern America (Canada and the United States), the Caribbean (cultural region of the English, French, Dutch, and Creole speaking countries located on the Caribbean Sea) and Latin America (nations that speak Spanish and Portuguese).
A Directory of United States Counties (2006) calls the story "baseless", saying that the county is named for the Jessamine Creek and the jasmine flowers that grow next to it. [18] Louisa County, Iowa, named either for Louisa Massey of Dubuque, Iowa, who, according to legend, killed the murderer of her brother; or for Louisa County, Virginia.