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List of states and territories of the United States
The
United States of America
is a
federal republic
consisting of 50
states
, a federal district (where the nation's
seat of government
–
Washington, D.C.
–is located), five major
territories
, and various
possessions
. The
48 contiguous states
and Washington, D.C., are in central
North America
between
Canada
and
Mexico
. The state of
Alaska
is in the northwestern part of North America (also bordering Canada) and the state of
Hawaii
is an
archipelago
in the mid-
Pacific
. The territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the
Caribbean Sea
.
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U.S. state
A
state
of the
United States of America
is one of the 50
constituent political entities
that shares its
sovereignty
with the
United States federal government
. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government,
Americans
are
citizens
of both the
federal republic
and of the state in which they
reside
.
State citizenship
and residency are flexible and no government approval is required to
move between states
, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders (e.g.,
paroled
convicts and children of divorced spouses who are
sharing custody
). States range in population from just under 600,000 (Wyoming) to over 38 million (California). Four—
Kentucky
,
Massachusetts
,
Pennsylvania
, and
Virginia
—use the
term
commonwealth
rather than
state
in their full official names.
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