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  2. Commonwealth (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Commonwealth is a term used by four of the 50 states of the United States in their full official longform state names: Kentucky, [1] Massachusetts, [2] Pennsylvania, [3] and Virginia. [4] "

  3. Member states of the Commonwealth of Nations - Wikipedia

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    The Commonwealth of Nations is a voluntary association of 56 sovereign states, referred to as Commonwealth countries. [1] Most of them were British colonies or dependencies of those colonies . No government in the Commonwealth exercises power over the others, as is the case in a political union .

  4. Commonwealth (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Commonwealth (U.S. state), a term used by four U.S. states in their full official state names, specifically: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the full name of Massachusetts; Commonwealth of Kentucky, the full name of Kentucky; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the full name of Pennsylvania; Commonwealth of Virginia, the full name of Virginia

  5. List of states and territories of the United States - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. List of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations by ...

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    This is a list of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations by population, which is sorted by the 2015 mid-year normalized demographic projections. Table Rank ...

  7. List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union - Wikipedia

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    Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside, due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government. [1] Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names. States are the primary subdivisions of the

  8. Commonwealth of Nations - Wikipedia

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    The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, [4] is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed. [2] They are connected through their use of the English language and historical-cultural ties.

  9. U.S. state - Wikipedia

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    Eleven states are named after individual people, including seven named for royalty and one named after a President of the United States. The origins of six state names are unknown or disputed. Several of the states that derive their names from names used for Native peoples retain the final letter "s" in the indigenous name.