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  2. Commonwealth (U.S. state) - Wikipedia

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    Commonwealth is a term used by four of the 50 states of the United States in their full official state names: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. " Commonwealth" is a traditional English term used to describe a political community as having been founded for the common good, and shares some similarities with the Latin phrase "res publica" ('the public thing') from which ...

  3. Red states and blue states - Wikipedia

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    Map based on last Senate election in each state as of 2022. Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to U.S. states whose voters vote predominantly for one party — the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states — in presidential and other statewide elections.

  4. Flags of the U.S. states and territories - Wikipedia

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    Current territory flags. These are the current official flags of the five permanently inhabited territories of the United States. Dates in parentheses denote when the territory's current flag was adopted by its respective political body. [citation needed] Flag of American Samoa. (April 17, 1960) Flag of Guam.

  5. File:Map of USA with state names.svg - Wikipedia

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    Description. Map of USA with state names.svg. English: A map of the United States, with state names (and Washington D.C.). Source. See below. Author. The original was edited by Andrew c to include Nova Scotia, PEI, Bahamas, and scale key. It was originally uploaded to the English Wikipedia with the same title by Wapcaplet :

  6. Geography of Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Massachusetts is the 7th smallest state in the United States with an area of 10,555 square miles (27,340 km 2 ). [1] It is bordered to the north by New Hampshire and Vermont, to the west by New York, to the south by Connecticut and Rhode Island, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Maine. Massachusetts is the most populous New ...

  7. Abortion law in the United States by state - Wikipedia

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    The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...

  8. List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy

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    Data in the 2010 columns comes from Health Data. [11] Overall, life expectancy at birth in Hawaii, Washington, California, and New York (state) are among the longest in the nation, while life expectancy at birth in Mississippi, American Samoa, and West Virginia are among the shortest in the nation.

  9. Portal:Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Massachusetts ( / ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts / ⓘ, /- zɪts / MASS-ə-CHOO-sits, -⁠zits; Massachusett: Muhsachuweesut [məhswatʃəwiːsət] ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...