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The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions.
The list below is all 50 States and their capitals in alphabetical order. Order the 50 States by name, capital or the date they became a state. To learn fun and intersting facts for each state, click on the state flag or name.
by Wes Littlefield. The United States is made up of 50 states, each with its own government, laws, and culture. But before these states joined the Union, some existed as independent, sovereign nations.
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- Delaware
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- Georgia
- Connecticut
- Massachusetts
- Maryland
- South Carolina
- New Hampshire
- Virginia
1787: December 7 (Ratification date – one of the original U.S. colonies) Delaware is known as the First State because it was the first state to ratify, or sign, the United States Constitution.
1787: December 12 (Ratification date – one of the original U.S. colonies) The term “Keystone State” comes from the fact that Pennsylvania serves as a geographic link between the Northeastern and Southern United States, as well as the Atlantic and Midwest coasts.
1787: December 18 (Ratification date – one of the original U.S. colonies) Large portions of New Jersey’snorthwestern and southern regions are very rural. The fertile, loamy soil of the state’s Inner Coastal Plain area makes the terrain suitable for agriculture, earning New Jersey the nickname “Garden State.”
1788: January 2 (Ratification date – one of the original U.S. colonies) Georgia was the last and southernmost of the original Thirteen Colonies to be established. Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution on January 2, 1788.
1788: January 9 (Ratification date – one of the original U.S. colonies) Connecticut is the southernmost state in the United States’ New England area. State nicknames for Connecticut include “Constitution State”, the “Nutmeg State”, the “Provisions State”, and the “Land of Steady Habits”.
1788: February 6 (Ratification date – one of the original U.S. colonies) Nicknames for Massachusetts are: The Bay State (official), The Pilgrim State; The Puritan State, The Old Colony State, and The Baked Bean State.
1788: April 28 (Ratification date – one of the original U.S. colonies) Some of Maryland’s nicknames are Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State. Maryland is the only U.S. state with no natural lakes.
1788: May 23 (Ratification date – one of the original U.S. colonies) The natural environment of South Carolina is separated into three natural geographic areas: the Atlantic coastal plain, the Piedmont, and the Blue Ridge Mountains, which run east to west.
1788: June 21 (Ratification date – one of the original U.S. colonies) The nickname, “The Granite State” comes from the New Hampshire’s large granite rocks and quarries. With a general coastline length of 18.57 miles (29 km), New Hampshire has the shortest ocean coastline of any U.S. coastal state.
1788: June 25 (Ratification date – one of the original U.S. colonies) The Atlantic Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, the Blue Ridge, the Appalachian Ridge and Valley Region, and the Appalachian Plateau are the five geographical regions that make up Virginia.
See a list of US states in order of statehood with sortable table so you can rank by chronological order or name.
May 2, 2024 · For the sovereign states of the Americas, see List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Americas. For a broader coverage related to this topic, see U.S. state and Territories of the United States. A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories.
In fact, 50 individual states share sovereignty with the federal government. Furthermore, within the branches of government there is a system of checks and balances meaning that no one institution of government is sovereign (unlike in the UK, where parliament is sovereign).
