The United States of America
No.	State	Capital	Nickname	Abbrs.	Entry	Area (Mls²)	Population
1	Delaware	Dover	First or Diamond	DE or Del	1776	2,057	622,000
2	Pennsylvania	Harrisburg	Keystone	PA or Pa	1776	45,333	11,853,000
3	New Jersey	Trenton	Garden	NJ	1776	7,836	7,562,000
4	Georgia	Atlanta	Peach or Empire of the South	GA or Ga	1776	58,876	5,837,000
5	Connecticut	Hartford	Constitution or Nutmeg	CT or Conn	1776	5,009	3,174,000
6	Massachusetts	Boston	Bay	MA or Mass	1776	8,257	5,822,000
7	Maryland	Annapolis	Old Line	MD or Md	1776	10,577	4,329,000
8	South Carolina	Columbia	Palmetto	SC	1776	31,055	3,347,000
9	New Hampshire	Concord	Granite	NH	1776	9,304	998,000
10	Virginia	Richmond	Old Dominion	VA or Va	1776	40,817	5,706,000
11	New York	Albany	Empire	NY	1776	49,576	17,783,000
12	North Carolina	Raleigh	Tar Heel or Old North	NC	1776	52,586	6,255,000
13	Rhode Iasland	Providence	Ocean or Little Rhody	RI	1776	1,214	968,000
14	Vermont	Montpelier	Green Mountain	VT or Vt	1791	9,609	535,000
15	Kentucky	Frankfort	Blue Grass	KY or Ky	1792	40,395	2.726,000
16	Tennessee	Nashville	Volunteer	TN or Tenn	1796	42,244	4,762,000
17	Ohio	Columbus	Buckeye	OH	1803	41,222	10,744,000
18	Louisiana	Baton Rouge	Pelican	LA or La	1812	48,532	4,481,000
19	Indiana	Indianapolis	Hoosier	IN or Ind	1816	36,291	5,499,000
20	Mississippi	Jackson	Magnolia	MS or Miss	1817	47,716	2,613,000
21	Illinois	Springfield	Prairie	IL or Ill	1818	56,400	11,535,000
22	Alabama	Montgomery	Cotton, Camelia, Heart of Dixie or Yellowhammer	AL or Ala	1819	51,609	4,021,000
23	Maine	Augusta	Pine Tree	ME or Me	1820	33,215	1,164,000
24	Missouri	Jefferson City	Show Me	MO or Mo	1821	69,686	5,029,000
25	Arkansas	Little Rock	Land of Opportunity or Natural	AAR or Ark	1836	53,104	23,590,000
26	Michigan	Lansing	Wolverine or Great Lakes	MI or Mich	1837	58,216	9,088,000
27	Florida	Tallahassee	Sunshine	FL or Fla	1845	58,560	11,366,000
28	Texas	Austin	Lone Star	TX or Tex	1845	267,339	16,370,000
29	Iowa	Des Moines	Hawkeye	IA or Ia	1829	56,290	2,884,000
30	Wisconsin	Madison	Badger	WI or Wis	1848	56,154	4,775,000
31	California	Sacramento	Golden	CA or Calif	1850	158,693	26,365,000
32	Minnesota	St Paul	North Star or Gopher	MN or Minn	1858	84,068	4,193,000
33	Oregon	Salem	Beaver	OR or Oreg	1859	96,981	2,687,000
34	Kansas	Topeka	Sunflower	KS or Kan	1861	82,264	2,450,000
35	West Virginia	Charleston	Mountain	WV or W.Va	1863	24,181	1,936,000
36	Nevada	Carson City	Silver	NV or Nev	1864	110,540	936,000
37	Nebraska	Lincoln	Cornhusker	NE or Nebr	1867	77,227	1,606,000
38	Colorado	Denver	Centennial	CO or Col	1876	104,247	3,231,000
39	North Dakota	Bismark	Peace Garden or Flickertail	ND or N.Dak	1889	70,665	685,000
40	South Dakota	Pierre	Coyote or Mount Rushmore	SD or S.Dak	1889	77,047	708,000
41	Montana	Helena	Treasure	MT or Mont	1889	147,138	826,000
42	Washington	Olympia	Evergreen	WA or Wash	1849	68,192	4,409,000
43	Idaho	Boise	Gem	ID	1890	83,557	1,005,000
44	Wyoming	Cheyenne	Equality or Cowboy	WY or Wyo	1890	97,914	509,000
45	Utah	Salt Lake City	Beehive	UT	1896	84,916	1,645,000
46	Oklahoma	Oklahoma City	Corn or Sooner	OK or Okla	1907	66,919	3,301,000
47	New Mexico	Santa Fe	Land of Enchantment	NM or N.Mex	1912	121,666	1,450,000
48	Arizona	Phoenix	Copper or Grand Canyon	AZ or Ariz	1912	113,909	3,137,000
49	Alaska	Juneau	Last Frontier	AK or Alas	1959	286,400	521,000
50	Hawaii	Honolulu	Aloha	HI	1959	6,450	1,054,000
ABBREVIATIONS: The abbreviations HI, ID, OH and UT are official postal only, while NH, NJ, NY, NC, RI and SC are both official and official postal. Where two abbreviations are given, the second is the official and the first the official postal.

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