United States of America/Catalogs/States and Territories

This is a catalog of the constituent states of the USA, as well as territories and other subdivisions within or dependent on the USA.

States (50)

No	Name	Short	Year	Size1	Population2	Density3	Electoral votes4	Capital
1	Alabama (U.S. state)	AL	1819 - 22nd	50,744	5,024,279	99.0	9	Montgomery, Alabama
2	Alaska State	AK	1959 - 49th	571,951	733,391	1.3	3	Juneau, Alaska
3	Arizona	AZ	1912 - 48th	113,635	7,151,502	62.9	11	Phoenix, Arizona
4	Arkansas	AR	1836 - 25th	52,068	3,011,524	57.8	6	Little Rock, Arkansas
5	California	CA	1850 - 31st	155,959	39,538,223	253.5	54	Sacramento, California
6	Colorado	CO	1876 - 38th	103,718	5,773,714	55.7	10	Denver, Colorado
7	Connecticut	CT	1788 - 5th	4845	3,605,944	744.3	7	Hartford, Connecticut
8	Delaware	DE	1787 - 1st	1954	989,948	506.6	3	Dover, Delaware
9	Florida	FL	1845 - 27th	53,927	21,538,187	399.4	30	Tallahassee, Florica
10	Georgia (U.S. state)	GA	1788 - 4th	57,906	10,711,908	185.0	16	Atlanta, Georgia
11	State of Hawaii	HI	1959 - 50th	6423	1,455,271	226.6	4	Honolulu, Hawaii
12	Idaho	ID	1890 - 43rd	82,747	1,839,106	22.2	4	Boise, Idaho
13	Illinois	IL	1818 - 21st	55,584	12,812,508	230.5	19	Springfield, Illinois
14	Indiana	IN	1816 - 19th	35,867	6,785,528	189.2	11	Indianapolis, Indiana
15	Iowa	IA	1846 - 29th	55,869	3,190,369	57.1	8	Des Moines, Iowa
16	Kansas	KS	1861 - 34th	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
17	Kentucky	KY	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
18	Louisiana	LA	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
19	Maine	ME	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
20	Maryland	MD	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
21	Massachusetts	MA	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
22	Michigan	MI	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
23	Minnesota	MN	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
24	Mississippi	MS	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
25	Missouri	MO	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
26	Montana	MT	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
27	Nebraska	NE	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
28	Nevada	NV	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
29	New Hampshire	NH	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
30	New Jersey	NJ	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
31	New Mexico	NM	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
32	New York (state)	NY	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
33	North Carolina	NC	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
34	North Dakota	ND	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
35	Ohio	OH	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
36	Oklahoma	OK	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
37	Oregon	OR	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
38	Pennsylvania	PA	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
39	Rhode Island	RI	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
40	South Carolina	SC	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
41	South Dakota	SD	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
42	Tennessee	TN	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
43	Texas	TX	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
44	Utah	UT	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
45	Vermont	VT	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
46	Virginia	VA	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
47	Washington (state)	WA	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
48	West Virginia	WV	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
49	Wisconsin	WI	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap
50	Wyoming	WY	year	SqMi	Pop	Dens	Elect	Cap

¹Size in square miles, land area only (minus water).
²Population per 2020 census.
³Population density in persons per square mile.
⁴Electoral votes for the 2024 presidential election.

Federal District (1)

The capital of the United States of America is a separate federal district and not part of any one State; historically, it was created from land ceded by Maryland and Virginia

Name	Capital	Date of Admission to the Union	Mayor	History
District of Columbia	Washington	July 26, 1788	Adrian M. Fenty (Democrat)	History of the District of Columbia

Unincorporated territories

The following Territories belong to the United States of America. They do not belong to any one State. These islands are inhabited.

Name	Capital	Governor	Population	Size (Square miles)
American Samoa	Pago Pago (Capital) Fagatogo (Seat of Government)	Togiola Tulafono (Democratic)	65,000	76
Guam	Hagåtña (Agana)	Felix Perez Camacho (Republican)	179,000	209
Northern Mariana Islands	Saipan	Benígno Fitial (Covenant)	81,000	184
Puerto Rico	San Juan	Luis Fortuño (Republican)	3,955,000	3,515
U.S. Virgin Islands	Charlotte Amalie	John deJongh, Jr. (Democratic)	112,000	136

In a 2012 referendum in Puerto Rico, two questions were asked. In the first, a majority voted for a change in status. In the second, a majority voted to request admission as the 51st state if any change were to be made. This would require ratification by Congress.

Outlying Islands

The following Territories belong to the United States of America. They do not belong to any one State. Except for the military forces on Wake and Kwajalein, and US Government employees on Midway these islands are uninhabited; many are United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges. A number of battles of the Second World War in the Pacific were fought on them or in the waters near them.

• Baker Island
• Howland Island
• Jarvis Island
• Kwajalein Atoll
  • Johnston Island
• Kingman Reef
• Midway Islands
• Navassa Island
  • Palmyra Atoll
• Wake Island