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The purpose, rather than to standardize state abbreviations per se, was to make room in a line of no more than 23 characters for the city, the state, and the ZIP code. [4] Since 1963, only one state abbreviation has changed.
The FCC assigned additional numeric codes used with the EAS for territorial waters of the U.S., but these were not part of the FIPS standard. 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 ...
This is an incomplete list of statutory codes from the U.S. states, territories, and the one federal district. Most states use a single official code divided into numbered titles. Pennsylvania's official codification is still in progress.
Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is US, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the United States. The second part is two letters, which is the postal abbreviation of the state, district, or outlying area, except the United States Minor Outlying Islands which do not have a postal abbreviation.
Ohio OK: Oklahoma OR: Oregon PA: Pennsylvania RI: Rhode Island SC: South Carolina SD: South Dakota TN: Tennessee TX: Texas UT: Utah VT: Vermont VA: Virginia WA: Washington WV: West Virginia WI: Wisconsin WY: Wyoming AS: American Samoa CM: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands CZ: Panama Canal Zone FM: Federated States of Micronesia GU ...
From a less specific name: This is a redirect from a title that is a less specific name to a more specific, less general one.. It may be a less specialized term, a broader usage, a generic term or simply be worded less narrowly.
The state of Wisconsin was created from Wisconsin Territory on May 29, 1848, with 28 counties. The most populous county in the state is Milwaukee County at 916,205 people at the 2023 Census estimate. [2] The county with the least population is Menominee County with 4,226 residents; the Menominee Indian Reservation is co-extensive with the ...
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.