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1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.
This is a list of proposed state mergers, including both current and historical proposals originating from sovereign states or organizations.The entities listed below differ from separatist movements in that they would form as a merger or union of two or more existing states, territories, colonies or other regions, becoming either a federation, confederation or other type of unified sovereign ...
Pages in category "Proposed states and territories of the United States" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hawaii Admission Act, the last law to admit a new US state (1959) List of U.S. state partition proposals; List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union; Manifest destiny; North American Union; Proposed states and territories of the United States; Territories of the United States; United Nations list of non-self-governing territories ...
51st state, possible new states in the United States; List of U.S. state partition proposals; New states of Germany, five German states recreated in 1990; List of proposed states of Australia; List of proposed provinces and territories of Canada; List of proposed states and territories of India
The list of county secession proposals in the United States includes proposed new counties to be formed from existing counties within a given state that have not yet been formed. For counties that want to secede from their current state and to join or create another, see List of U.S. state partition proposals .
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Congress can admit more states, but it cannot create a new state from territory of an existing state or merge two or more states into one without the consent of all states involved, and each new state is admitted on an equal footing with the existing states. [7] The United States has control over fourteen territories.