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The traditional abbreviations for U.S. states and territories, widely used in mailing addresses prior to the introduction of two-letter U.S. postal abbreviations, are still commonly used for other purposes (such as legal citation), and are still recognized (though discouraged) by the Postal Service.
Pennsylvania (/ ˌ p ɛ n s ɪ l ˈ v eɪ n i ə / ⓘ PEN-sil-VAY-nee-ə, lit. ' Penn's forest country '), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania [b] (Pennsylvania Dutch: Pennsilfaani), [7] is a U.S. state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
Pennsylvania, US state (postal abbreviation PA) Phillips Academy Andover, a private secondary school in Andover, Massachusetts, often referred to as Phillips Andover or PA; Portsmouth Abbey School, a private secondary school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island; Pulaski Academy, a private school in Little Rock, Arkansas
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 ...
The abbreviation may be non-obvious. For example, "KU" is the University of Kansas and not "UK," which is commonly the University of Kentucky. In some cases, the nickname may be better known than the formal name. For example, "West Point" for the United States Military Academy or "UCLA" for the University of California, Los Angeles.
Penna., an abbreviation for Pennsylvania; Penda of Mercia, king of Mercia, who is sometimes called Penna of Mercia. See also. Della Penna, a surname
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.
Penowa, Pennsylvania — PENnsylvania, Ohio, West VirginiA [62]: 141 Sharedon Park, South Africa — Self Help Association of REsidents plus DON, a neighbourhood somewhere in the Cape Town area [3] Texarkana, Texas/Arkansas — TEXas ARKansas LouisiANA; Ti, Oklahoma — a backwards acronym for Indian Territory [57]