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Federative units of Brazil

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The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and one federal district (Washington, D.C.).^[1] States are the primary subdivisions of the United States, and possess a number of powers and rights under the United States Constitution, such as regulating intrastate commerce, running elections, creating local governments, and ratifying Constitutional amendments. Under the 10th amendment to the Constitution, the states can exercise all powers that are not delegated to the federal government.^[2] Each state has its own government, consisting of an executive branch, a legislative branch, and a judicial branch.^[3] They are all represented in the federal Congress by two members of the Senate, and is represented proportionally to their population in the House of Representatives.^[4] The federal district does not have representatives in the Senate, but has a non-voting delgate in the House. Each state is entitled to electors in the Electoral College, the body that elects the President of the United States, equal to the combined number of senators and representatives that state has in Congress.^[5] Congress can admit more states into the United States, but it cannot create a new state from territory of an existing state or merge of two or more states into one without the consent of all states involved.^[6]

In addition to the 50 states and federal district, the United States has control over fourteen territories. Five of them (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) have a permanent, nonmilitary population, while nine of them (the United States Minor Outlying Islands) do not. With the exception of Navassa Island, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which are located in the Caribbean, all territories are located in the Pacific Ocean. One territory, Palmyra Atoll, is considered to be incorporated, meaning the full body of the Constitution has been applied to it; the other territories are unincorporated, meaning the Constitution does not fully apply to them. Ten territories (the Minor Outlying Islands and American Samoa) are considered to be unorganized, meaning they have not had an Organic Act enacted by Congress; the four other territories are organized, meaning they have had an Organic Act has been enacted by Congress. The five inhabited territories each have limited autonomy in addition to having territorial legislatures and governors, but residents cannot vote in federal elections.

Out of the 50 states, California is the most populous, with an estimated 38,041,430 residents as of 2012; Wyoming is the least populous, with an estimated 576,412 residents. The District of Columbia, with an estimated 632,323 residents as of 2012, has a higher population than the two least populous states (Wyoming and Vermont). The largest state by area is Alaska, encompassing 665,384 square miles (1,723,337 square kilometers), while the smallest Rhode Island, encompassing 1,545 square miles (4,002 square kilometers). The first state to ratify the current Constitution was Delaware, which it did on December 7, 1787. The newest state is Hawaii, which was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959. The largest territory in terms of both population and size is Puerto Rico, which has 3,725,789 residents as of the 2010 census and a total area of 5,325 square miles (13,792 square kilometers).

Federative units

States

Main article: States of Brazil

States of Brazil

State	Abbr.	Capital	Statehood	Region	Population	Area in km2 (sq mi)	Deputies
Acre	BR-AC	Rio Branco	June 15, 1962	North	733,559	164,123.040 (63,368.260)	8 (1.6%)
Alagoas	BR-AL	Maceió	November 15, 1889	Northeast	3,120,494	27,778.506 (10,725.341)	9 (1.8%)
Amapá	BR-AP	Macapá	October 5, 1988	North	669,526	142,828.521 (55,146.400)	8 (1.6%)
Amazonas	BR-AM	Manaus	November 15, 1889	North	3,483,985	1,559,159.148 (601,994.713)	8 (1.6%)
Bahia	BR-BA	Salvador	November 15, 1889	Northeast	14,016,906	564,733.177 (218,044.699)	39 (7.6%)
Ceará	BR-CE	Fortaleza	November 15, 1889	Northeast	8,452,381	148,920.472 (57,498.516)	22 (4.3%)
Espírito Santo	BR-ES	Vitória	November 15, 1889	Southeast	3,514,952	46,095.583 (17,797.604)	10 (1.9%)
Goiás	BR-GO	Goiânia	November 15, 1889	Central-West	6,003,788	340,111.783 (131,317.894)	17 (3.3%)
Maranhão	BR-MA	São Luís	November 15, 1889	Northeast	6,574,789	331,937.450 (128,161.766)	18 (3.5%)
Mato Grosso	BR-MT	Cuiabá	November 15, 1889	Central-West	3,035,122	903,366.192 (348,791.637)	8 (1.6%)
Mato Grosso do Sul	BR-MS	Campo Grande	October 11, 1977	Central-West	2,449,024	357,145.532 (137,894.661)	8 (1.6%)
Minas Gerais	BR-MG	Belo Horizonte	November 15, 1889	Southeast	19,597,330	586,522.122 (226,457.457)	53 (10.3%)
Pará	BR-PA	Belém	November 15, 1889	North	7,581,051	1,247,954.666 (481,837.990)	17 (3.3%)
Paraíba	BR-PB	João Pessoa	November 15, 1889	Northeast	3,766,528	56,469.778 (21,803.103)	12 (2.3%)
Paraná	BR-PR	Curitiba	November 15, 1889	South	10,444,526	199,307.922 (76,953.219)	30 (5.8%)
Pernambuco	BR-PE	Recife	November 15, 1889	Northeast	8,796,448	98,148.323 (37,895.279)	25 (4.9%)
Piauí	BR-PI	Teresina	November 15, 1889	Northeast	3,118,360	251,577.738 (97,134.708)	10 (1.9%)
Rio de Janeiro	BR-RJ	Rio de Janeiro	November 15, 1889	Southeast	15,989,929	43,780.172 (16,903.619)	46 (9%)
Rio Grande do Norte	BR-RN	Natal	November 15, 1889	Northeast	3,168,027	52,811.047 (20,390.459)	8 (1.6%)
Rio Grande do Sul	BR-RS	Porto Alegre	November 15, 1889	South	10,693,929	281,730.223 (108,776.647)	31 (6%)
Rondônia	BR-RO	Porto Velho	December 22, 1981	North	1,562,409	237,590.547 (91,734.223)	8 (1.6%)
Roraima	BR-RR	Boa Vista	October 5, 1988	North	450,479	224,300.506 (86,602.910)	8 (1.6%)
Santa Catarina	BR-SC	Florianópolis	November 15, 1889	South	6,248,436	95,736.165 (36,963.940)	16 (3.1%)
São Paulo	BR-SP	São Paulo	November 15, 1889	Southeast	41,262,199	248,222.801 (95,839.359)	70 (13.6%)
Sergipe	BR-SE	Aracaju	November 15, 1889	Northeast	2,068,017	21,915.116 (8,461.474)	8 (1.6%)
Tocantins	BR-TO	Palmas	October 5, 1988	North	1,383,445	277,720.520 (107,228.492)	8 (1.6%)

Federal district

Main article: Federal district of Brazil

Federal district of Brazil

Federal district	Abbr.	Creation	Region	Population	Area in km2 (sq mi)	Deputies
Federal District	BR-DF	April 21, 1960	Central-West	2,570,160	5,779.999 (2,231.670)	8 (1.6%)

Territories

History

Acre

1

Ama-
pá 

Amazonas

Bahia

Cea-
 rá

2

DF

Goiás

Mato Grosso

Mato
Grosso
do Sul

Mara-
nhão

Minas
Gerais  

Pará

3

Paraná

4

Piauí

5

6

Rio
Grande
do Sul

Ro-
raima

Ron-
  dônia

7

São
   Paulo

8

To-
cantins

1 – Alagoas

3 – Paraíba

4 – Pernambuco

6 – Rio Grande do Norte

8 – Sergipe

2 – Espírito Santo

5 – Rio de Janeiro

7 – Santa Catarina

DF – Federal District

References

• "Definitions of Insular Area Political Organizations". Office of Insular Affairs. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
• "Delegates and Resident Commissioners". Kids in the House. Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
• "Guide to State and Local Census Geography" (PDF) (pdf). United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
• "Standard Postal Service State Abbreviations and ZIP Codes" (PDF) (pdf). Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
• "U.S. Insular Areas: Application of the U.S. Constitution" (PDF) (pdf). United States General Accounting Office. November 1997. Retrieved July 9, 2013.

Notes

Notes

Footnotes

1. "United States". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
2. "Map Layer Info". National Atlas of the United States. nationalatlas.gov. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
3. "Frequently Asked Questions About the Minnesota Legislature". Minnesota State Legislature. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
4. Article I, Section 2, Constitution of the United States (June 21, 1788). Retrieved on July 10, 2013.
5. Article II, Section 1, Constitution of the United States (June 21, 1788). Retrieved on July 10, 2013.
6. Article IV, Section 3, Constitution of the United States (June 21, 1788). Retrieved on July 10, 2013.

See also

• Geography portal
• North America portal
• United States portal

• List of U.S. state lists
• List of fictional U.S. states
• List of regions of the United States
• List of U.S. counties that share names with U.S. states

External links

• Information about All States from UCB Libraries GovPubs
• State Resource Guides, from the Library of Congress
• Tables with areas, populations, densities and more (in order of population)
• Tables with areas, populations, densities and more (alphabetical)
• State and Territorial Governments on USA.gov
• StateMaster – statistical database for US States.
• U.S. States: Comparisons, rankings, demographics
• BEA News Release (GDP by State) - Bureau of Economic Analysis
• State Revenue – Debt – GDP - usgovernmentrevenue.com
• Compare State Facts