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The traditional abbreviations for U.S. states and territories, widely used in mailing addresses prior to the introduction of two-letter U.S. postal abbreviations, are still commonly used for other purposes (such as legal citation), and are still recognized (though discouraged) by the Postal Service.
A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from this map. This article is part of a series on.
FIPS state codes were numeric and two-letter alphabetic codes defined in U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard Publication ("FIPS PUB") 5-2 to identify U.S. states and certain other associated areas. The standard superseded FIPS PUB 5-1 on May 28, 1987, and was superseded on September 2, 2008, by ANSI standard INCITS 38:2009.
Open this Help:Tables and locations section for editing via the visual editor (VE). Delete the D.C. row, but do not save the changes. Copy the remaining full state names. You can usually paste them directly into the spreadsheet over the abbreviations. Then alphabetize the full names in the spreadsheet.
Input a state abbreviation, output is the full state name. If you put in a state name, it will output the same name back as the default! Examples {{US State Abbrev | NY }} returns New York {{US State Abbrev | CA }} returns California {{US State Abbrev | IN }} returns Indiana {{US State Abbrev | New York }} returns New York; Options
U. List of colloquial names for universities and colleges in the United States. Categories: Lists of abbreviations by country. United States-related lists.
Several of the states that derive their names from names used for Native peoples have retained the plural ending in "s": Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, and Texas. One common naming pattern has been as follows: Native tribal group → River → Territory → State.
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.