In Manhattan there are large buildings such as the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the theater district around Broadway, Columbia University, the financial center around Wall Street, “Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts”, Harlem, the “American Museum of Natural History ”, Chinatown and Central Park. In addition to” Times […]

Population According to official figures published in the Washington State’s Data Site, the State had a population of 6,882,400 residents on April 1, 2013. But to describe the population of Washington we must use the figures published after the 2010 United States Census, which showed a population of 6,724,540 residents. […]

Abbreviated as NM by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, New Mexico is the fifth largest state in the United States. Its surface is rugged, with the southern foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the north of the state (Sierra de la Sangre de Cristo), great plains to the east, and plateaus and more mountains to […]

Abbreviated as NJ by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, New Jersey is (after Rhode Iceland, Delaware and Connecticut) the fourth smallest state of the United States and also the one with the highest population density. New Jersey was named after the Channel Island of Jersey. The state is nicknamed The Garden State and belongs […]

Abbreviated as NH by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, New Hampshire is a state in the northeastern United States, which was part of the thirteen colonies. New Hampshire became the 9th state to join the union June 21, 1788 after South Carolina on May 23, 1788 and before Virginia on June 25, 1788. The state […]

Abbreviated as WY by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Wyoming is a state in the United States. The state is centrally located in the western part of the country and is also defined by the United States Census Bureau as part of the Western United States region. The two western thirds of the sparsely populated […]

History The most prominent Indian tribes that inhabited the Nevada area before the arrival of the Europeans were the Shoshone, the Paiute, the Bannock, and the Washoe. Although claimed by Spain and later by Mexico, the region remained largely unknown to the outside world until the early 19th century. Peter […]

Abbreviated as WI by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Wisconsin is one of the states that makes up the United States of America, located in the Midwest region of the country. It is bordered to the south by Illinois, to the west by Iowa and Minnesota, to the north by Lake Superior and the […]

Abbreviated as NE by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Nebraska is a US state of Midwest of the United States. The name Nebraska comes from the Oto or Omaha language, meaning “shallow water”. The name comes from the Platte River, which flows through the state. Originally part of the ” Great American Desert “, […]

Abbreviated as WV by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, West Virginia is a state in the United States. Its zip code is WV and its capital is Charleston. The state has a population of 1,805,832 inhabitants (2018). The total area of West Virginia is 62,755 km², of which 62,361 km² is land and 394 km² […]

Abbreviated as MT by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Montana is a state in the northwestern United States. In the western and central thirds of the state there are several mountain areas, which form part of the Rocky Mountains, of which 77 are named. It is these mountains that gave Montana its name (from […]

Abbreviated as DC by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Washington D. C. is the capital of the United States of America and comprises the so-called District of Columbia (abbreviated as “DC”), an entity different from the 50 states that make up that nation. The city and district are located on the banks of the […]

Abbreviated as MO by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Missouri is named for the Native Americans the Missouris (people of the large canoes) who inhabited the fertile lands around the tributaries of the Mississippi and Missour rivers. Federal state of the United States. The capital is the city of Jefferson. It limits the north […]

Washington State. Known simply as Washington (pronounced in English / ˈwɒʃɪŋtən /) or The Evergreen State. One of the 50 states of the United States of America, located in the Northwest region, officially founded on November 11, 1889 when its constitution was accepted and promulgated. Abbreviated as WA by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Washington was named in […]

Abbreviated as MS by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Mississippi has historically been a state dominated by farms and small towns, and dependent on agriculture and livestock. Currently, however, the state has a relatively diversified economy, with a growing manufacturing industry and tourism. Mississippi is considered the poorest state in the United States, with […]

For centuries Virginia has been at the forefront of the wars of independence, from the civil war to the Cold War, and the war on terror. The great social changes of the mid to late twentieth century were expressed through celebrations that had broad popular support and that highlighted the […]

First settlers The oldest human remains found in the region date from around 7000 BC. These remains belong to a single individual and were found in 1933 near Browns Valley, in the eastern state of Minnesota, hence the name Browns Valley Man. However, stone tools have been found on a […]

Abbreviated as VT by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Vermont is a state in the northeastern United States with Montpelier as the state capital. The state is part of the New England region. Vermont is mainly known for its maple syrup production and scenic mountain areas. The name comes from the French mont vert, ‘green […]

History Various Native American tribes and peoples lived in the region where the state of Michigan is located today thousands of years before the arrival of the first Europeans. These tribes and peoples included the Chippewa, the Menomini, the Miami, the Ottawa, and the Potawatomi, indigenous tribes part of the […]

Situation Abbreviated as UT by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Utah is bordered to the north by the states of Wyoming and Idaho, to the south by Arizona and at a single point in the southeast by New Mexico, to the east by Colorado and to the west by Nevada. The southeastern corner of […]

History Before the arrival of the English colonizers, six large groups of indigenous people inhabited Massachusetts territory: the Massachuset people, the Wampanoag south of Boston, the Nauset on Cape Cod, the Pennacook and the Nipmuc in northern Massachusetts, and the Pocumtuc in the Connecticut River Valley. Giovanni da Verrazano, a […]

Mexican territory While developing campaigns to exterminate the Indians, the thirteen original colonies multiplied their territorial extension tenfold in less than a century, through a process of dispossession, blackmail and State Terrorism. Since 1809, annexationist claims have been observed by the United States. The Viceroy of New Spain (Mexico was […]

Until 1775 As far as is known, Algonquin Native Americans lived in the region for approximately 10,000 years prior to the arrival of the first Europeans in the region that now constitutes the state of Maryland. The first European to explore the region was the Spanish Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, […]

Geography It is bordered to the north by the states of Kentucky and Virginia, to the east by North Carolina, to the south by [[Georgia], Alabama and Mississippi, and to the west by Arkansas and Missouri. The Mississippi River marks its western boundary. Among the important cities of the state […]

First establishments Abbreviated as LA by ABBREVIATIONFINDER, Louisiana was inhabited by Native Americans when European explorers arrived in the 16th century. Many place names in the state are transliterations of those used in native dialects. The tribes that inhabited Louisiana included the Atakapa, the boocana, the opelousa, the acolapissa, the […]