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  2. List of states and territories of the United States - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union

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    The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]

  4. Category:States of the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    ISO 3166-2:US is the entry for the United States in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.

  6. Index of U.S. counties - Wikipedia

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    "State & County QuickFacts". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012 This page was last edited on 29 November 2024, at 20:50 ...

  7. List of capitals in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1787, and gave the Congress the power to exercise "exclusive legislation" over a district that "may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States." [1] The 1st Congress met at Federal Hall in New York. [2]

  8. Commonwealth (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Commonwealth is a term used by four of the 50 states of the United States in their full official state names: Kentucky, [1] Massachusetts, [2] Pennsylvania, [3] and Virginia. [4] "

  9. List of counties by U.S. state and territory - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.