User:Laudaka/usa state postal abreviations

(from the U.S. state article)

List of states

A list of all the U.S.A. states, with only their U.S. postal abbreviations, most commonly used by people living in the USA.

This list is NOT intended as an encyclopedia article and that's why it's on my personal pages. It is intended as a TOOL for people not from the USA and especially for people from "non English speaking countries".

AK: Alaska AL: Alabama AR: Arkansas AZ: Arizona CA: California CO: Colorado CT: Connecticut DE: Delaware FL: Florida GA: Georgia

HI: Hawaii IA: Iowa ID: Idaho IL: Illinois IN: Indiana KS: Kansas KY: Kentucky LA: Louisiana MA: Massachusetts MD: Maryland

ME: Maine MI: Michigan MN: Minnesota MO: Missouri MS: Mississippi MT: Montana NC: North Carolina ND: North Dakota NE: Nebraska NH: New Hampshire

NJ: New Jersey NM: New Mexico NV: Nevada NY: New York OH: Ohio OK: Oklahoma OR: Oregon PA: Pennsylvania RI: Rhode Island SC: South Carolina

SD: South Dakota TN: Tennessee TX: Texas UT: Utah VA: Virginia VT: Vermont WA: Washington WI: Wisconsin WV: West Virginia WY: Wyoming

It's important to know that often the capitals of the states, which have been ommited here on purpose, are often a lot smaller than the largest city in the state. That is one of the very reasons why there are no capitals in this list.

In addition to the this states, several other areas belong to or have associations with the United States. The only important one to remember is the next area:

• DC District of Columbia. The District of Columbia has one city, Washington, which encomposes the entire area of DC. The city does not have state status, so it has no Congressional representation, but it does have three electoral votes. The city is the seat of the federal government.

Other areas who belong to or have associations with the United States:

• AS American Samoa
• GU Guam
• MP Northern Mariana Islands
• PR Puerto Rico, Commonwealth
• VI the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Midway Atoll
• Guantanamo Bay (the US has "complete jurisdiction and control" under a lease from Cuba, which retains ultimate sovereignty)

(ultimate soveignty? if someone could explain me what the heck that means?)

REMARKS: The list in the U.S. state article was so excellently formatted that I took the freedom to make this copy on my personal pages, but then stripping down every not important away. The only thing that is important for non native English speakers is that they can recognize the state abreviations that are frequently used in user profiles, in chat rooms, etc., etc.

Also remember people from the USA often forget to add USA after the postal abreviation in their profile, which makes it kind of confusing for people from non-English speaking countries from all over the world. No offense meant!

Feel free to improve this text just like you'd improve a normal article. This text is licensed under the GNU FDL, so don't consider it as something that's part of my personal pages and feel free to improve it! (I say this because I suppose you would never have the idea of copying some fierce fight on the for example abortion article talk pages even it is officially under the GNU FDL.)

Hope no one considers this an illegal use of my personal wikipedia pages. For other countries see proper web pages. --71.110.56.97 00:18, 13 March 2007 (UTC)