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Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
List of state and territory name etymologies of the United States. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
Iowa is known as "The Hawkeye State," a nickname inspired by the character Hawkeye from James Fenimore Cooper's novel "The Last of the Mohicans." The name was suggested in the 1830s by settlers ...
Free State (province) / 28°S 27°E / -28; 27. The Free State ( Sotho: Freistata; Afrikaans: Vrystaat [ˈfrɛistɑːt]; Xhosa: iFreyistata; Tswana: Foreistata; Zulu: iFuleyisitata ), formerly known as the Orange Free State, is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa 's judicial capital.
A map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories. Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from the map. The United States of America is a federal republic [ 1] consisting of 50 states ...
Every state has its own unique symbols, like state animal, state flower, and state motto. The U.S. Government Publishing Office recognizes the following demonyms as the official nicknames for ...
Bay Stater (official term used by state government) and Citizen of the Commonwealth (identifier used in state law) [ 30] Massachusettsian, [ 31] Massachusite, [ 32][ 33] Masshole (derogatory [ 34] as an exonym; however, it can be affectionate when applied as an endonym [ 35] ) Michigan.
The Orange Free State (Dutch: Oranje Vrijstaat; [a] Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat [b]) was an independent Boer sovereign republic under British suzerainty in Southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, which ceased to exist after it was defeated and surrendered to the British Empire at the end of the Second Boer War in 1902.