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Map showing dry (red), wet (blue), and mixed (yellow) counties/parishes/boroughs in the United States as of May 2019. The following list of dry areas by U.S. state details all of the counties, parishes, boroughs, and municipalities in the United States of America that ban the sale of alcoholic beverages.
A dry state was a state in the United States in which the manufacture, distribution, importation, and sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited or tightly restricted. Some states, such as North Dakota , entered the United States as dry states, and others went dry after the passage of prohibition legislation or the Volstead Act .
As of April 1, 2010, the date of the 2010 United States census, the nine most populous U.S. states contain slightly more than half of the total population. The 25 least populous states contain less than one-sixth of the total population. California, the most populous state, contains more people than the 21 least populous states combined, and ...
Population density is defined as the population divided by land area. Data are from the US Census unless otherwise specified. Population data are for the year 2023 [2] and area data are for the year 2010. [3] Some population estimates for territories are from the United Nations Commission on Population and Development. [4]
States in the South and West tended to grow pretty quickly last year while a handful of states saw their populations shrink.
The following is a sortable table of the most populous county in each U.S. state, federal district, and territory. Counties and states/territories in bold have a population of at least 1 million. Table
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.
As the United States has grown in area and population, new states have been formed out of U.S. territories or the division of existing states. The population figures provided here reflect modern state boundaries. 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.