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Prior to 1987, when the U.S. Secretary of Commerce approved the two-letter codes for use in government documents, [13] the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) suggested its own set of abbreviations, with some states left unabbreviated. Today, the GPO supports United States Postal Service standard. [14]
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]
The FIPS state alpha code for each U.S. states and the District of Columbia are identical to the postal abbreviations by the United States Postal Service. From September 3, 1987, the same was true of the alpha code for each of the outlying areas, with the exception of U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (UM) as the USPS routes mail for these islands ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Input a state abbreviation, output is the full state name. ... {US State Abbrev | CA }} ...
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
A flat list (without all 50 states) is in the article linked below. The list is in the map caption: List of temples in the United States (LDS Church)#Contents; Clicking the state on the map there will also work. Map does not have to be there, but it is convenient.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of common abbreviations in the English language. A. ab abdominal ... (Nebraska, United States ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Lists of United States abbreviations" The following 8 pages are in this ...