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List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations
List of states and territories of the United States
e. This guideline covers the use of abbreviations —including acronyms and initialisms, contractions, and other shortenings —in the English Wikipedia . Maintaining a consistent abbreviation style allows Wikipedia to be read, written, edited, and navigated more easily by readers and editors. The style should always be consistent within a page.
List of U.S. state and territory nicknames
To use an example from another talk section -- Kent. is an abbreviation for Kentucky and Kent is the name of the county or city of Kent. If the abbreviation is used properly with a period it would not be confusing and obvious that Kent. means Kentucky. The article should be split and have one for state codes and one for abbreviations.
Most states use a single official code divided into numbered titles. Pennsylvania's official codification is still in progress. California, New York, and Texas use separate subject-specific codes (or in New York's case, "Consolidated Laws") which must be separately cited by name.
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On top of that, four more states begin with the letter "M": Maine, Massachusetts, Montana and Maryland. For those of you who don't know, Michigan gets the MI abbreviation. Missouri is MO and ...