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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]
List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations. Several sets of codes and abbreviations are used to represent the political divisions of the United States for postal addresses, data processing, general abbreviations, and other purposes.
U.S. state. In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sovereignty with the federal government.
An enlargeable map of the 3,143 counties and county equivalents located in the 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. The 100 county equivalents in the U.S. territories are not on this map. There are 3,244 counties and county equivalents of the United States.
List of United States insurance companies. This is a list of insurance companies based in the United States. These are companies with a strong national or regional presence having insurance as their primary business. In 1752, Benjamin Franklin founded the first American insurance company as Philadelphia Contributionship.
For a list of capitol buildings, see List of state and territorial capitols in the United States. This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial and Native American capitals.
List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union. Map of the United States with names and borders of states. The order in which the original 13 states ratified the 1787 Constitution, then the order in which the others were admitted to the Union.
The states and territories included in the United States Census Bureau 's statistics for the United States population, ethnicity, and most other categories include the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Separate statistics are maintained for the five permanently inhabited territories of the United States: Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands ...
The following is a list of the 3,143 counties and county-equivalents in the 50 states and District of Columbia sorted by U.S. state, plus an additional 100 county-equivalents in the U.S. territories sorted by territory.
This is a list of state and territorial capitols in the United States, the building or complex of buildings from which the government of each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and the organized territories of the United States, exercise its authority.