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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]
Since the early 20th century, the Supreme Court's interpretation of this "Commerce Clause" has, over time, greatly expanded the scope of federal power, at the expense of powers formerly considered purely states' matters. The Cambridge Economic History of the United States says, "On the whole, especially after the mid-1880s, the Court construed ...
List of U.S. states and territories by Human Development Index score; List of U.S. states by Hispanic and Latino population; List of U.S. states by median home price; List of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate; List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate; List of U.S. states by American Human Development Index
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.
[a] Premodern English used the alternative term "commonwealth" in such sense in place of the now singularly standard term "republic." Criminal charges in these four states are brought in the name of the Commonwealth. [b] Besides the four aforementioned states, other states have also on occasion used the term "commonwealth" to refer to themselves:
List of states and territories of the United States#States From a modification : This is a redirect from a modification of the target's title or a closely related title. For example, the words may be rearranged.
To locate categories in a particular state, click on that state, or use the text links below. For convenience, all states in the United States should be included in this category. This includes all states that can also be found in the subcategories.
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.