List of states and territories of the United States

The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States). The U.S. also possesses five major territories and nine minor islands. Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions.Radan, 2007, p. 12 The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows states to exercise all powers of government not delegated to the federal government. Each state has its own constitution and government. All states and their residents are represented in the federal Congress, a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Each state elects two senators, while representatives are distributed among the states in proportion to the most recent constitutionally mandated decennial census.

Each state is entitled to select a number of electors to vote in the Electoral College, the body that elects the nation's president and vice president, equal to the total of representatives and senators in Congress from that state. The federal district does not have representatives in the Senate, but has a non-voting delegate in the House, and it is entitled to electors in the Electoral College. Congress can admit more states, but it cannot create a new state from territory of an existing state or merge two or more states into one without the consent of all states involved. Each new state is admitted on an equal footing with the existing states.

The United States asserts sovereignty over fourteen territories outside the 50 states and federal district—five of them (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands) with a permanent, non-military population. Nine others (the United States Minor Outlying Islands) are mostly uninhabited. With the exception of Navassa Island, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which are located in the Caribbean, all U.S. territories are located in the Pacific Ocean. One, Palmyra Atoll, is considered to be incorporated, meaning the full body of the Constitution has been applied to it. The other territories are officially unincorporated, meaning that the Constitution does not fully apply to them. Ten territories (the Minor Outlying Islands and American Samoa) are considered to be unorganized, i.e., an organic act of administration has not been adopted by Congress. The four other territories are organized, meaning an organic act has been approved. The five inhabited territories each have limited autonomy and elect their own territorial legislatures and governors. However, their residents cannot vote in federal elections, including the U.S. presidential elections, although they are represented by non-voting delegates in the U.S. Congress (specifically, in the House of Representatives).

The largest state by population is California, with a population of 39,538,223 people. The smallest is Wyoming, with a population of 576,851 people. The federal district has a larger population (689,545) than both Wyoming and Vermont. The largest state by area is Alaska, encompassing . The smallest is Rhode Island, encompassing . The most recent states to be admitted, Alaska and Hawaii, were admitted in 1959. The largest territory by population is Puerto Rico, with a population of 3,285,874 people, larger than 21 states. The smallest is the Northern Mariana Islands, with a population of 47,329 people. Puerto Rico is the largest territory by area, encompassing . The smallest territory, Kingman Reef, encompasses , or a little larger than 3 acres.

States

+ States of the United States of America Flag, name andpostal abbreviation Cities Ratification oradmission Population(2020) Total areaCounties and County Equivalents Capital LargestClick on the spreadsheet link labeled "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places of 20,000 or More" mi2 km2 AL Montgomery Huntsville 67 Counties AK Juneau Anchorage 19 organized boroughs and 1 Unorganized Borough divided into 11 census areas AZ Phoenix 15 counties AR Little Rock 75 counties CA Sacramento Los Angeles 58 counties CO Denver 64 counties CT Hartford Bridgeport 9 councils of government and 8 historical counties DE Dover Wilmington 3 counties FL Tallahassee Jacksonville 67 counties GA Atlanta 159 counties HI Honolulu 5 counties ID Boise 44 counties IL Springfield Chicago 102 counties IN Indianapolis 92 counties IA Des Moines 99 counties KS Topeka Wichita 105 counties KY Frankfort Louisville 120 counties LA Baton Rouge New Orleans 64 parishes ME Augusta Portland 16 counties MD Annapolis Baltimore 23 counties and 1 independent city MA Boston 14 counties MI Lansing Detroit 83 counties MN Saint Paul Minneapolis 87 counties MS Jackson 82 counties MO Jefferson City Kansas City 114 counties and 1 independent city MT Helena Billings 56 counties NE Lincoln Omaha 93 counties NV Carson City Las Vegas 16 counties and 1 independent city NH Concord Manchester 10 counties NJ Trenton Newark 21 counties NM Santa Fe Albuquerque 33 counties NY Albany New York City 62 counties NC Raleigh Charlotte 100 counties ND Bismarck Fargo 53 counties OH Columbus 88 counties OK Oklahoma City 77 counties OR Salem Portland 36 counties PA Harrisburg Philadelphia 67 counties RI Providence 5 counties SC Columbia Charleston 46 counties SD Pierre Sioux Falls 66 counties TN Nashville 95 counties TX Austin Houston 254 counties UT Salt Lake City 29 counties VT Montpelier Burlington 14 counties VA Richmond Virginia Beach 95 counties and 38 independent cities WA Olympia Seattle 39 counties WV Charleston 55 counties WI Madison Milwaukee 72 counties WY Cheyenne 23 counties

Federal district + Federal district of the United States Flag, name andpostal abbreviation Established Population (2020) Total area Counties and County Equivalents mi2 km2 DC Jul 16, 1790 689,545 considered 1 county equivalent 1

Territories

Inhabited territories + Inhabited territories of the United States Name andpostal abbreviation Capital Acquired Territorial status Population (2020)2020 Population of U.S. Island Areas Just Under 339,000, U.S. Census Bureau, October 28, 2021. Total area Counties and County Equivalents mi2 km2 AS Pago Pago 1900 15 counties represented as 3 districts and 2 atolls GU Hagåtña 1899 19 villages represented as 1 County Equivalent MP Saipan 1986 4 municipalities PR San Juan 1899 78 municipalities VI Charlotte Amalie 1917 2 administrative divisions split across 3 islands

Uninhabited territories

+Territories of the United States with no permanent populationName and postal abbreviationIslandAcquiredTerritorial statusAlternative ClaimsPopulationLand areaCounties and County Equivalentsmi2km2U.S. Minor Outlying IslandsN/ABajo Nuevo Bank (Petrel Island)18690 (2000)561459 island groupsUM-81Baker Island1856N/A0 (2025) UM-84Howland Island18580 (2000) UM-86Jarvis Island18560 (2000) UM-67Johnston Atoll185910 (2020) UM-89Kingman Reef18600 (2016) UM-71Midway Atoll186740 (2019) UM-76Navassa Island18580 (2000) UM-95Palmyra Atoll1898N/A20 (2019) N/ASerranilla Bank18800 (2000)4631,2000UM-79Wake Island1899100 (2017)

List of states and territories of the United States

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