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The letter 'x' in the name reflects the voiceless palato-alveolar fricative /ʃ/, a historical phoneme present in Nahuatl and in Old Spanish. The conquistadors transcribed this sound using that letter in the Spanish language at the time of colonization and also when codifying the alphabets of the indigenous languages in the Americas for the ...
Ágios Martínos - Άγιος Μαρτίνος (Greek), Country of Sint Maarten (English), État de Saint-Martin (French variant), Ilha de São Martinho (Portuguese variant), Isla de San Martín (Spanish variant), Land Sint Maarten (Dutch variant), Saint Martin (Danish, Indonesian, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh), Saint-Martin (Finnish ...
Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.
The largest state by area is Alaska, encompassing 665,384 square miles (1,723,340 km 2), while the smallest is Rhode Island, encompassing 1,545 square miles (4,000 km 2). 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 ...
Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
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FMCSA list of states, United States Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration - List of states and abbreviations. Accessed on line July 14th, 2023. Appendix I – Mexican State Codes, United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Automated Export System Trade Interface Requirements.
This is a list of national capitals, including capitals of territories and dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states and entities whose sovereignty is disputed. The capitals included on this list are those associated with states or territories listed by the international standard ISO 3166-1 , or that are included in the ...