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Here is a quick look of US states:
ALABAMA,
the nerve center of the US's historic Civil Rights Movement,
is the 30th largest state in the country. The capital is Montgomery
while the main cities are Anniston, Auburn, Decatur, Dothan,
Florence, Gadsden, Hoover and Tuscaloosa.
ALASKA is one of the two states
not bordered by another US state. Visit Alaska for whale watching,
moose spotting and fjord cruising.
ARIZONA is known for its desert
landscape. The capital of Arizona is Phoenix.
ARKANSAS was the scene of numerous
battles during the American Civil War. The capital of Arkansas
is Little Rock.
CALIFORNIA, located on the
west coast of the US, is by far the most populous state in
the country as well as the most physically diverse. Sacramento
is the capital city.
COLORADO, best known as the home of the highest peaks of the Rocky Mountains, is located in the western side of the US. While western Colorado is rocky, the eastern side is mostly High Plains or the prairie region and is sparsely populated. The state capital and largest city is Denver.
CONNECTICUT, the wealthiest
state in the US, is the southernmost state of the New England
region. Popularly known as the "The Nutmeg State,"
the state capital is at Hartford.
DELAWARE, a Mid-Atlantic state
located on the western shore of the Delaware River and Delaware
Bay. The state capital is at Dover and its major city is Wilmington.
FLORIDA, situated mostly on
a large peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic
Ocean, and the Straits of Florida, is also called the "Sunshine
State". Idyllic beaches and palm trees border this paradise,
where alligators, art deco, classic kitsch and theme parks
exist side-by-side.
GEORGIA, known as the Peach
State or Empire State of the South, is a southern state of
the US. The state capital is Atlanta.
HAWAII, the only US state that
is completely surrounded by water, is situated 2,500 miles
from the mainland. Honolulu is the largest city and the state
capital. Hawaii is also considered to be the endangered species
capital of the US.
IDAHO is located in the northwestern
US. The capital is Boise.
ILLINOIS, the 21st state to
join the US, is located in the north-central US and borders
Lake Michigan. The capital of Illinois is Springfield, while
its largest city is Chicago.
INDIANA, meaning the Land of
the Indians, is surrounded by Lake Michigan. Indiana, one
of the Great Lakes states, has its capital in Indianapolis.
IOWA, the 29th state to join
the US, is bordered by Minnesota on the north, Nebraska and
South Dakota on the west, Missouri on the south, and Wisconsin
and Illinois on the east.
KANSAS, also known as the Sunflower
State, is located equidistant from the Pacific and the Atlantic
Ocean.
KENTUCKY is also known as "The
Bluegrass State". The state is known for thoroughbred
horses and racing, bourbon whisky distilleries, bluegrass
music and basketball.
LOUISIANA, a southern state
of the US, is bordered by Texas in the west, Arkansas north,
by Mississippi in the east, and Gulf of Mexico in the south.
Among the states, Louisiana has a unique culture, owing to
its French colonial heritage.
MAINE, a state in the New England
region of the US, is probably named after the French province
of Maine. The state has the Atlantic in the south and east,
New Brunswick, a province of Canada, to the northeast.
MARYLAND is bound on the north
by Pennsylvania, on the west by West Virginia, on the north
and east by Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean, and on the south
by Virginia.
MASSACHUSETTS, known as the
Bay State of the US, is bordered on the north by New Hampshire
and Vermont, on the west by New York, on the south by Connecticut
and Rhode Island, and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean. At
the southeastern corner is a peninsula called Cape Cod. The
islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket lie to the south
of Cape Cod.
MICHIGAN, which derives its
name from Lake Michigan, is the largest state east of the
Mississippi river if territorial water is included. Bound
by four of the Great Lakes, the state has the longest freshwater
shoreline in US.
MINNESOTA, the 32nd state of
the US, is the largest state by land area in the Midwestern
US and is in the sub-region known as the Upper Midwest. The
capital is St. Paul, which sits on the Mississippi River.
MISSISSIPPI, which takes its
name from the Mississippi River, is also known as the "Magnolia
State" and the "Hospitality State". Jackson
is the capital city.
MISSOURI, meaning "town
of the large canoes", is considered to be a mid-western
state, but it has many cultural traits of the Southern states.
Jefferson City is the capital city.
MONTANA, located largely in
the western US, gets its name from Spanish word "montaña"
or mountain. The state is also known as the "Treasure
State," "Land of Shining Mountains," and the
"Big Sky Country." Helena is the capital.
NEBRASKA, which gets its name
from a Native American word meaning "flat water",
is a leading farming state of the US. Lincoln is the capital.
NEVADA or the "The Silver
State" is located in the western US. The border with
Arizona includes the Colorado River and Hoover Dam.
NEW HAMPSHIRE, also nicknamed
the "Granite State", "Mother of Rivers",
"White Mountain State" and "Switzerland of
America", is a located in northern New England area.
New Hampshire is home to the highest wind speed ever recorded:
231 mph in 1934 at the Mount Washington weather observatory
in the Presidential Range.
NEW JERSEY, named after the
island of Jersey in the English Channel, is the fourth smallest
and the most densely populated state of the US. Parts of New
Jersey are included in the metropolitan areas of New York,
Philadelphia, and the Delaware Valley.
NEW MEXICO is a southwestern state in the US. The eastern border of New Mexico is with Oklahoma, west with Texas. Texas also lies south of most of New Mexico, although the southwestern boot-heel borders the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. The states of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah come together at the Four Corners in the northwestern corner of New Mexico.
THE NEW YORK state borders
(clockwise from the northwest) two Great Lakes (Erie and Ontario,
which are connected by the Niagara River), one former (briefly)
Great Lake (Lake Champlain), the provinces of Ontario and
Quebec in Canada, three New England states (Vermont, Massachusetts,
and Connecticut), the Atlantic Ocean, and two Mid-Atlantic
states (New Jersey and Pennsylvania). In addition, Rhode Island
shares a water border with New York.
NORTH CAROLINA is bordered
by South Carolina on the south, Georgia on the southwest,
Tennessee on the west, Virginia on the north, and the Atlantic
Ocean on the east.
NORTH DAKOTA, the northernmost
of the Great Plains states in Midwestern US, is bordered in
the north by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba
and in the south by South Dakota. In the west is Montana and
to the east across the Red River of the North and the Bois
de Sioux River is Minnesota. The Missouri River flows through
the western part of the state.
OHIO is a multi-regional, cultural
and geographical crossroads with elements of the Midwest,
Northeast, Appalachia and the South. The state's southern
border is defined by the Ohio River and much of the northern
border is defined by Lake Erie. It borders Pennsylvania on
the east, Michigan in the northwest near Toledo, Ontario,
Canada across Lake Erie to the north, Indiana to the west,
Kentucky on the south, and West Virginia on the southeast.
OKLAHOMA is bound on the east
by Arkansas and Missouri, by Kansas on the north and northwest
by Colorado, on the far west by New Mexico and on the south
and near west by Texas. Oklahoma City is the capital and largest
city.
OREGON, a state in the Pacific
Northwest region of the US, borders the Pacific Ocean, California,
Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. Its northern border lies along
the Columbia River and the east along the Snake River.
PENNSYLVANIA forms a geographic
bridge both between the Northeastern states and the Southern
states, and between the Atlantic seaboard and the Midwest.
It is bordered on the north and northeast by New York, on
the east, across the Delaware River by New Jersey, on the
south by Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia, on the west
by Ohio, and on the northwest by Lake Erie. Philadelphia is
the largest city and Harrisburg the capital.
THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND and
Providence Plantations is the smallest state in the US. Rhode
Island is part of the New England region, and was the first
of the thirteen original American colonies to declare independence
from British rule. Rhode Island is bordered on the north and
east by Massachusetts, on the west by Connecticut, and on
the south by Rhode Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.
SOUTH CAROLINA, the first state
to secede from the Union to establish the Confederate States
of America, has North Carolina in the north, to the south
and west by Georgia, located across the Savannah River, and
to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest
city is Columbia. Other important cities are Charleston, Greenville,
Rock Hill, Spartanburg, Anderson, Sumter, and Florence.
SOUTH DAKOTA is a midwestern
state in the US. The state is bordered to the north by North
Dakota, to the south by Nebraska, to the east by Iowa and
Minnesota, and to the west by Wyoming and Montana. It is probably
best known as the location of Mount Rushmore.
TENNESSEE is bordered on the
north by Kentucky and Virginia, on the east by North Carolina,
on the south by Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, and on the
west by Arkansas and Missouri.
TEXAS borders New Mexico on
the west, Oklahoma on the north, Louisiana and Arkansas on
the east. To the southwest, across the Rio Grande, Texas borders
the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León,
and Tamaulipas. To the southeast of Texas lies the Gulf of
Mexico.
UTAH, one of the four corners
states of the US, is bordered by Idaho and Wyoming in the
north, by Colorado in the east, at a single point by New Mexico
to the southeast, by Arizona in the south, and by Nevada in
the west. Salt Lake City is the capital and largest city.
Vast expanses of the state are relatively uninhabited.
VERMONT, the second smallest
of the 50 states in the US, is located in New England. The
Connecticut River marks the eastern border of the state with
New Hampshire. Lake Champlain separates Vermont from New York
and Canada is on the northwest of the state.
THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA,
one of the original thirteen states of the US that revolted
against British rule in the American Revolution, is bordered
by West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia to
the north, by Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the
east, by North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, and by
Kentucky and West Virginia to the west. Richmond is the capital.
WASHINGTON, located in the
Pacific Northwest of the US, is bound by the Pacific Ocean
to the west, Oregon to the south, Idaho to the east and British
Columbia, Canada to the north. The state was named after first
US President George Washington and Olympia is the state capital.
WEST VIRGINIA, nicknamed "The
Mountain State", is bordered by Pennsylvania in the north,
Ohio in the north and west, Kentucky in the west, Maryland
in the north and east, and Virginia in the east and south.
The Ohio and Potomac rivers form parts of the boundaries of
the state. This is the only US state located entirely within
the Appalachian Mountain range and in which all areas are
mountainous. Charleston is the capital city.
WISCONSIN is located in the
Midwest area of the US. The state is bordered by the Montreal
River, Lake Superior and Michigan to the north, by Lake Michigan
to the east, by Illinois to the south, and by Iowa and Minnesota
to the west. Part of the state's boundaries includes the Mississippi
River and St. Croix River in the west, and the Menominee River
and Montreal River in the northeast. Madison is the capital
city.
WYOMING, a state in the west
US, is bordered on the north by Montana, on the east by south
Dakota and Nebraska, on the south by Colorado, and on the
west by Utah and Idaho. The capital and largest city is Cheyenne.
Wyoming is also the least populous of the US states.
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