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  2. Oregon Territory - Wikipedia

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    The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, [1] until February 14, 1859, ...

  3. List of U.S. states and territories by area - Wikipedia

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    This is a complete list of all 50 U.S. states, its federal district (Washington, D.C.) and its major territories ordered by total area, land area and water area. [1] The water area includes inland waters, coastal waters, the Great Lakes and territorial waters.

  4. List of states and territories of the United States by ...

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    This is a list of the 50 states, the 5 territories, and the District of Columbia by population density, population size, and land area. It also includes a sortable table of density by states, territories, divisions, and regions by population rank and land area, and a sortable table for density by states, divisions, regions, and territories in ...

  5. United States territorial acquisitions table - Wikipedia

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    Accession Date Area (sq.mi.) Area (km 2.) Cost in dollars Original territory of the Thirteen States (western lands, roughly between the Mississippi River and Appalachian Mountains, were claimed but not administered by the states and were all ceded to the federal government or new states by 1802)

  6. Oregon Country - Wikipedia

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    In 1848, the U.S. portion of the Oregon Country was formally organized as the Oregon Territory. In 1849, Vancouver Island became a British Crown colony—the Colony of Vancouver Island—with the mainland being organized into the Colony of British Columbia in 1858. Shortly after the establishment of Oregon Territory, there was an effort to ...

  7. List of U.S. states and territories by historical population

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    Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state. [a] Since 1920, the "total population" of the United States has been considered the population of all the States and the District of Columbia; territories and other possessions were counted as additional ...

  8. List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area ...

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    Oregon Territory: 720,011: Territory acquired from Britain by the US in 1848. Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (Ash Sharqiyah) 710,000: Largest province of Saudi Arabia. Texas: 696,200: State of the United States. Visigothic Kingdom: 684,738: A Germanic Kingdom on the Iberian peninsula, lasting from 474-723. Measured at its apex in 500. Austria ...

  9. Comparison of U.S. state and territory governments - Wikipedia

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    National Conference of State Legislatures Term Limit Chart; Term Limits.Org, Term limit data for AZ AR CA CO FL LA MA MI MO MT NB NV OH OK SD WY , Accessed on June 27, 2009. Little, Thomas H. (2006). The legislative branch of state government: people, process, and politics. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 1-85109-761-9