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The traditional abbreviations for U.S. states and territories, widely used in mailing addresses prior to the introduction of two-letter U.S. postal abbreviations, are still commonly used for other purposes (such as legal citation), and are still recognized (though discouraged) by the Postal Service.
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The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]
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To remove a particular state from the table of contents, use |State=, where State is either the name of the state, or the two letter abbreviation for the state. This is most useful in articles covering specific regions of the US, or time periods before certain states had formed. For example, | Kansas = | Alabama = or | KS = | AL =
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