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The most recent states to be admitted, Alaska and Hawaii, were admitted in 1959. The largest territory by population is Puerto Rico, with a population of 3,285,874 people (larger than 21 states), while the smallest is the Northern Mariana Islands, with a population of 47,329 people.
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1947–1986): U.N. trust territory administered by the U.S.; included the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau, which are sovereign states (that have entered into a Compact of Free Association with the U.S.), along with the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Map of the division of the states during the American Civil War (1861–1865); states in blue represent northern Union states, those in light blue representing five largely Union-supporting border southern states that permitted slavery, known as border states, and both Missouri and Kentucky, which had competing Confederate and Unionist governments, and states in red representing southern ...
The territory was generally settled by New Englanders and American Revolutionary War veterans granted land there. [8] The 6 states created from the territory were all free states: Ohio (1803), Indiana (1816), Illinois (1818), Michigan (1837), Wisconsin (1848), and Minnesota (1858). [9]
British Overseas Territory: United States Virgin Islands Virgin Islands of the United States VIR English: United States Virgin Islands — Virgin Islands of the United States: Charlotte Amalie: 100,091 1,910 km 2 (737 sq mi) United States dollar United States: Unincorporated organized territory of the United States
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).
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), [b] [11] is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of 14 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. [12]
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) uses a set of two-letter prefixes for vessel numbers; [18] 39 states and the District of Columbia have the same USPS and USCG abbreviations. USCG prefixes have also been established for five outlying territories; all are the same as the USPS abbreviations except the Mariana Islands.