The USA is a North American state with an area of 9, 5 million square kilometers, on which there are 50 states, which are the main administrative units of the country. According to 2013 data, 320 million people live in them, and the capital of the state is located in the city of Washington.
Coastal American states. How many are there?
This type of administrative division of the United States includes the already mentioned Washington, Oregon, hot California, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas. There are 23 states in total.
Each of these states has its own capital, and it is not always the largest city. For example, the capital of Washington is Olympia, and the largest city is Seattle. The rest of the states have city names as follows:
- the capital of Salem and the city of Portland in Oregon;
- Sacramento and Los Angeles in California;
- Juneau in Alaska;
- Honolulu Los Angeles in California;
- Augusta and Portland in Maine;
- Concorde and Manchester in New Hampshire;
- Boston in Massachusetts;
- Providence and Newport in Rhode Island;
- Hartford and Bridgeport in Connecticut;
- Albany and New York in the state of New York;
- Trenton and Newark in New Jersey;
- Dover and Wilmington in Delaware;
- Annapolis and Baltimon in Maryland;
- Richmond and Virginia Beach, Virginia;
- Raleigh and Charlotte in North Carolina;
- Columbia in South Carolina;
- Atlanta in Georgia;
- Tallahassee and Jacksonville in Florida;
- Baton Rouge and New Orleans in Louisiana;
- Houston and San Antonio in Texas;
- Jackson, Mississippi;
- Montgomery and Birmingham in Alabama.
The latter state, in fact, is the largest in the main territory of the United States, excluding Alaska. Its territory is over 696 thousand square kilometers.
American states landlocked to seas and oceans
It is famous for its potatoes Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Vermont. There are 27 states in total.
Capitals and largest cities in them:
- Boise in Idaho;
- Carson City and Las Vegas in Nevada;
- the capital of Helena and Billings in Montana;
- Cheyenne in Wyoming;
- Salt Lake City in Utah;
- Phoenix in Arizona;
- Denver to Colorado;
- Santa Fe and Albuquerque in New Mexico;
- the capital of Bismarck and Fargo in the state of North Dakota;
- Pierre and Sioux Falls in South Dakota;
- Lincoln and Omaha in Nebraska;
- Topeka and Wichita in Kansas;
- Oklahoma City in Oklahoma;
- The capital of Saint Paul and the largest city of Minneapolis in Minnesota;
- Des Moines, Iowa;
- Jefferson City and Kansas City, Missouri;
- Little Rock, Arkansas;
- Madison in Wisconsin;
- Springfield and Chicago in Illinois;
- the capital of Lansing and Detroit in Michigan;
- Indianapolis in Indiana;
- Frankfort and Louisville in Kentucky;
- Columbus, Ohio;
- Nashville and Memphis in Tennessee;
- Charleston in West Virginia;
- the capital city of Harrisburg and the city of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania;
- Montpelier and Burlington in Vermont.
Each state has its own constitution, as well as legislative, executive and judicial branches.
Each of the above American states has its own flag and seal, as well as a motto (for example, in Vermont - "Freedom and Unity", in Pennsylvania - "Virtue, Freedom and Independence", in Tennessee - "Agriculture and Trade") and a nickname (Tennessee - "Volunteer State", Pennsylvania - "Keystone State" and Vermont - "Green Mountains State").
