Alphabetical List of 50 States of the United States

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The United States of America is comprised of 50 states, with a federal district Washington DC, five major territories, and various minor islands. Each state has its own state capital, traditions, and history.

Basically, the U.S. territories are scattered across the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. So the USA stretching more than 3,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

The 48 contiguous states and Washington DC, are in North America between Canada and Mexico, while Alaska is in the far northwestern part of North America and Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean.

Each state and capital has its own constitution, based on the principles of the republic and the government, consisting of three branches: executive, legislative and judicial.

Under the United States Constitution, states have many powers and rights, such as controlling interstate trade, conducting elections, forming local governments, and approving constitutional amendments, but sovereignty is shared with larger federal governments.

Every US state is represented by two senators, while representatives are distributed among the states in proportion to the most recent constitutionally mandated decennial census.

In addition, each state has the right to select a number of voters to vote in the Electoral College, the body that elects the president of the United States, equal to the total of representatives and senators in Congress from that state.

The Constitution grants Congress the authority to admit new states into the Union. 

Since the establishment of the United States in 1776 by Thirteen British Colonies, the number of states has expanded from the original 13 to 50.

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In this section, we have added a list of all 50 states in alphabetical order with us state abbreviations and added the date when they became a part of American states.

List of 50 states in alphabetical order

Here is the alphabetical list of 50 states of the United States with the current state capital, largest city, and the date they were admitted to the US Constitution.

State Name	Postal abbreviation	Capital/Cities	Endorse date
Alabama	AL	Montgomery, Birmingham	Dec 14, 1819
Alaska	AK	Juneau, Anchorage	Jan 3, 1959
Arizona	AZ	Phoenix	Feb 14, 1912
Arkansas	AR	Little Rock	Jun 15, 1836
California	CA	Sacramento, Los Angeles	Sep 9, 1850
Colorado	CO	Denver	Aug 1, 1876
Connecticut	CT	Hartford, Bridgeport	Jan 9, 1788
Delaware	DE	Dover, Wilmington	Dec 7, 1787
Florida	FL	Tallahassee, Jacksonville	Mar 3, 1845
Georgia	GA	Atlanta	Jan 2, 1788
Hawaii	HI	Honolulu	Aug 21, 1959
Idaho	ID	Boise	Jul 3, 1890
Illinois	IL	Springfield, Chicago	Dec 3, 1818
Indiana	IN	Indianapolis	Dec 11, 1816
Iowa	IA	Des Moines	Dec 28, 1846
Kansas	KS	Topeka, Wichita	Jan 29, 1861
Kentucky	KY	Frankfort, Louisville	Jun 1, 1792
Louisiana	LA	Baton Rouge, New Orleans	Apr 30, 1812
Maine	ME	Augusta, Portland	Mar 15, 1820
Maryland	MD	Annapolis, Baltimore	Apr 28, 1788
Massachusetts[	MA	Boston	Feb 6, 1788
Michigan	MI	Lansing, Detroit	Jan 26, 1837
Minnesota	MN	St. Paul, Minneapolis	May 11, 1858
Mississippi	MS	Jackson	Dec 10, 1817
Missouri	MO	Jefferson City, Kansas City	Aug 10, 1821
Montana	MT	Helena, Billings	Nov 8, 1889
Nebraska	NE	Lincoln, Omaha	Mar 1, 1867
Nevada	NV	Carson City, Las Vegas	Oct 31, 1864
New Hampshire	NH	Concord, Manchester	Jun 21, 1788
New Jersey	NJ	Trenton, Newark	Dec 18, 1787
New Mexico	NM	Santa Fe, Albuquerque	Jan 6, 1912
New York	NY	Albany, New York City	Jul 26, 1788
North Carolina	NC	Raleigh, Charlotte	Nov 21, 1789
North Dakota	ND	Bismarck, Fargo	Nov 2, 1889
Ohio	OH	Columbus	Mar 1, 1803
Oklahoma	OK	Oklahoma City	Nov 16, 1907
Oregon	OR	Salem, Portland	Feb 14, 1859
Pennsylvania	PA	Harrisburg, Philadelphia	Dec 12, 1787
Rhode Island	RI	Providence	May 29, 1790
South Carolina	SC	Columbia, Charleston	May 23, 1788
South Dakota	SD	Pierre, Sioux Falls	Nov 2, 1889
Tennessee	TN	Nashville	Jun 1, 1796
Texas	TX	Austin, Houston	Dec 29, 1845
Utah	UT	Salt Lake City	Jan 4, 1896
Vermont	VT	Montpelier, Burlington	Mar 4, 1791
Virginia	VA	Richmond, Virginia Beach	Jun 25, 1788
Washington	WA	Olympia, Seattle	Nov 11, 1889
West Virginia	WV	Charleston	Jun 20, 1863
Wisconsin	WI	Madison, Milwaukee	May 29, 1848
Wyoming	WY	Cheyenne	Jul 10, 1890

In table: list of 50 states and capitals

Note: USA State Postal Abbreviations are all two letters, and these two letters are always capitalized without any periods. These official state abbreviations have all been standardized by the United States Postal Service.

As an example, New York is shortened as NY and not as N.Y. with periods after each letter. Similarly, the Alabama abbreviation is AL (and not Al).

US Territories and Commonwealth

Outside of the 50 main states in the Union, the United States has several territories in different parts of the world too. These territories may not be official states, but they still adhere to the same formula of two capital letters for their official abbreviations.

Federal district

Name	Postal abbreviation	Established	Population
District of Columbia	DC	Jul 16, 1790	705,749

Territories of the United States

In addition to the 50 states and the federal district, the United States has sovereignty over 14 territories. Five of them (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) have a permanent, nonmilitary population, while nine of them do not.

Name	Postal abbreviation	Capital	Acquired	Population
American Samoa	AS	Pago Page	1900	57,400
Guam	GU	Hagåtña	1899	161,700
Northern Mariana Islands	MP	Saipan	1986	52,300
Puerto Rico	PR	San Juan	1899	3,193,694
U.S. Virgin Islands	VI	Charlotte Amalie	1917	103,700

With the exception of Navassa Island, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which are located in the Caribbean, all territories are located in the Pacific Ocean. 

One territory, Palmyra Atoll, is considered to be incorporated, meaning the full body of the Constitution has been applied to it; the other territories are unincorporated, meaning the Constitution does not fully apply to them. 

Ten territories (the Minor Outlying Islands and American Samoa) are considered to be unorganized, meaning they have not had an Organic Act enacted by Congress; the four other territories are organized, meaning they have had an Organic Act that has been enacted by Congress.The five inhabited territories each have limited autonomy and a non-voting delegate in Congress, in addition to having territorial legislatures and governors, but residents cannot vote in federal elections.