Topics: North America : United States
This category is devoted to sites for and about the United States of America, a federal democratic republic in North America which declared independence from Britain July 4, 1776 and ratified its present Constitution September 20, 1787. Its capital city is Washington, in the District of Columbia (DC). The US occupies 9,629,091 sq km in 50 states plus DC; its possessions include a variety of Pacific, Atlantic, and Caribbean islands. It is a preeminent nation-state in terms of economic power, diversity, and technology; population and land area; and military strength.
Alabama
Alabama is located on the Gulf Coast in the Deep South, bordered by Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi.
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Alaska
The Alaska category contains English language sites about this geographical region of the world.
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Arizona
Arizona, the 48th of the United States, is located in the desert Southwest on the US border with Mexico, bounded by Utah, New Mexico, Nevada, and California.
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Arkansas
A landlocked state, Arkansas rises from lowlands along the Mississippi River in the east to the Ozark Mountains in the north.
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Arts and Entertainment
For national-level artistic, cultural, and entertainment activities and events as well as institutions, businesses, and organizations.
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Business and Economy
Includes sites covering the business and economic activities of the entire United States, or a large portion of the United States.
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California
California is the most populous state in the U.S. and the third largest in land area.
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Colorado
Colorado is nicknamed the Rocky Mountain State for its most prominent geographic feature, giving it the highest mean elevation among the states.
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Connecticut
Connecticut, the Nutmeg State, is located in southwestern New England. Since becoming the fifth state to ratify the Constitution in 1788, it has changed from forest and farmland to a mostly urban and suburban state, with an economy based on manufacturing and services.Connecticut is known for its affluence and is home to many private preparatory schools.
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Counties
For sites and FAQs concerned with counties (and corresponding sub-state areas such as boroughs in Alaska and parishes in Louisiana) nationwide.
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Delaware
Delaware is located along the east coast east of Maryland and across Delaware Bay from New Jersey.
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Education
Cultural and historical reasons have led to a highly decentralized and diversified education system in the American Republic.
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Florida
Known as the Sunshine State, Florida's semi-tropical climate includes both a rainy season (June to mid-November) and a temperate winter that attracts tourists as well as seasonal residents.
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Georgia
Georgia, the "Empire State of the South," stretches from the Appalachian Mountains in the north to a fertile coastal plain.
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Government
Sites pertaining to the Federal government, including the branches, laws, militaries, agencies, documents, employment.
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Hawaii
Hawaii, one of the world's most popular vacation destinations, is also the world's most isolated major population center.
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Health
Includes links to national-level health care, personal well-being and related resources for the citizens of the United States.Sites (or categories) may include, but not limited to:AddictionsAlternativeChiropracticConditions and DiseasesDentistryFitnessPhysicians and ClinicsHospiceHospitals
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Idaho
Idaho, the 43rd state (admitted July 3, 1890), lies in the Pacific Northwest (but is the only Pacific Time Zone state without a coastline).
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Illinois
Illinois is dominated by vast agricultural tracts and the skyline of the City of Chicago, the third largest city and metropolitan area in the US.Chicago's growth arises from its strategic position connecting trade between the Mississippi River system and the Great Lakes (and since 1959, the Atlantic).
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Indiana
State Motto: "Cross Roads of America" Indiana is located in the Great Lakes region of the Midwest and bordered by Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois.
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Iowa
More than any other state, the midwestern state of Iowa is strongly agricultural. Its 56,290 sq mi of rolling prairies between the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers contain some of the world's most fertile soil; Iowa is among the largest producers of corn, soybeans, oats, hay, wheat, and barley in the U.S.
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Kansas
Kansas, the Sunflower State, is synonymous with the Great Plains and wheat fields. Coronado encountered the native Kansa, Wichita, and Pawnee people when he claimed the land for Spain in 1541.
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Kentucky
Kentucky first attracted attention in the aftermath of the French and Indian War, when the famous frontiersman Daniel Boone made it his home.
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Localities
This category contains links to the Localities categories in each state.
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Louisiana
Louisiana, the 18th state, lies on the Gulf of Mexico bounded by Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi.
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Maine
Maine is located at the northeast corner of the U.S., the northernmost state in New England.
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Maps and Views
This is where to find maps representing the United States at large, or sections thereof administered by a national agency, such as the National Park Service.
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Maryland
We are trying to make this category the best reference possible for the State of Maryland.
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Massachusetts
The most populous of the New England states, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts occupies 23,934 sq km of land area, much of it rugged and hilly extensions of the Appalachian mountain chain but with coastal areas that mirror Mid-Atlantic coastal plain.
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Michigan
Michigan, rich in natural resources and bounded by three of the five Great Lakes, remains strong in mining, forestry, manufacturing, and trade.
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Minnesota
Nicknamed the "Land of 10,000 Lakes"-- an underestimate of the actual number-- Minnesota lies east of the Great Plains in the far upper Midwest.
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Mississippi
Welcome to the Open Directory Project's resources for the State of Mississippi. Mississippi was admitted to the United States in 1817 as the twentieth state.
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Missouri
The "Show Me" state, located in the Midwest, is shaped by the Mississippi River along the eastern border and the Missouri River which flows across the state into the Mississippi near St.
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Montana
Although the fourth largest state in area (381,087 sq km), Montana is sparsely populated, connecting the Great Plains in the east with the Rocky Mountains in the western areas.
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Nebraska
Nebraska - 77,358 square miles, 37th state to enter the union in 1867. State Motto: "Equality Before the Law".
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Nevada
This subcategory is for sites specific to the 36th state in the Union (1864), Nevada-- today one of the fastest-growing.
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News and Media
This category contains links to local media from across the nation. Newspapers, magazines, underground publications, independent publications, television stations and radio stations covering each state.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is part of the New England region in the northeastern United States, bounded by Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, the Atlantic Ocean, and Canada.
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New Jersey
New Jersey is called the Garden State, although the state's governor vetoed a bill to put this nickname on the state's car license plates in 1954 (the bill was passed anyway).
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New Mexico
True to its name, New Mexico boasts a unique cultural heritage melding the traditions of the Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache, Spanish settlers, and later immigrants from Anglo America.
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New York
New York, the Empire State, is located in the Northeastern United States; in 1788 it became the 11th of the original 13 states to ratify the Constitution.
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North Carolina
NC is a southern state having the unique geography of beaches, plains and mountains. LITTLE FACTOIDS:-North Carolina has exactly 100 counties.-The state bird is the cardinal.-The state tree is the dogwood.-NC's coast is home to the unique island chain called the Outer Banks.
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North Dakota
The most rural of the United States, North Dakota lies in the upper Great Plains bordering Canada.
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Ohio
Welcome to the Buckeye State Ohio was the first state created from the Northwest Territory, on February 19, 1803.
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Oklahoma
The name "Oklahoma" comes from the Choctaw words: "okla" meaning people and "humma" meaning red, so the state's name literally means "red people." Oklahoma has the largest American Indian population of any state.
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Oregon
Oregon, the Beaver State, is bounded by California and Nevada on the south, Idaho on the east, and Washington state to the north across the Columbia River, on which Portland, its largest city, is situated.The Cascade Mountains are Oregon's most prominent feature, dividing the state between wet and woody western and dry eastern segments.
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Pennsylvania
This subcategory is devoted to Pennsylvania, the Keystone State, so-called due to its strategic position on the Eastern seaboard and its prominent role in the economic, political, and military history of the United States.
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Recreation and Sports
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Rhode Island
One of the original thirteen U.S. colonies, founded in the 1600s by those fleeing religious persecution in neighboring Massachussetts.
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Science and Environment
Academic Departments,
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Society and Culture
This category is for listing sites that concern the make up of the local community: its people, its history, and resources and institutions that serve the people.
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South Carolina
SOUTH CAROLINA, United States of America. One of the thirteen original colonies, South Carolina has had a rich and varied history.
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South Dakota
South Dakota - Great Places and Great Faces While South Dakota is probably most famous for Mount Rushmore, it also boasts several other attractions: like the Badlands, Wind Cave National Park, the world's only Corn Palace, the Black Hills National Forest, and historic Deadwood, where legends like Wild Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane once roamed.
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Tennessee
Tennessee is geographically diverse. It divides naturally into three “grand divisions”—upland, often mountainous, East Tennessee, Middle Tennessee with its foothills and basin, and the low plain of West Tennessee.
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Texas
Welcome to Texas! Like the television commercial says, it is a whole "nother" country. In fact the Lone Star Flag once flew over the independent Republic of Texas.
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Transportation
Includes interstate transportation resources for those traveling to and from, and within the United States.
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Travel and Tourism
For the listing of sites pertaining to the tourism industry in the USA.
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Utah
Utah, a sparsely populated western state, is known for its national parks and outdoor recreation activites such as skiing, camping, fishing, hiking, and mountain climbing.
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Vermont
Vermont is a small New England state that ranks as the second smallest of the fifty United States (based on population and land area).
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Virginia
COMMONWEALTHof VIRGINIAThis category contains links of statewide interest in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Old Dominion.
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Washington
Washington became the 42nd state to enter the Union on November 11, 1889. Located in the Northwest corner of the United States' lower 48 states, it is bordered by British Columbia, Canada to the North; Idaho to the East; Oregon to the South; and the Pacific Ocean to the West.
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Washington, DC
Washington, the capital city of the United States of America, is named after George Washington, first president of the United States.
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Weather
Weather, storm and meteorology sites with a nationwide focus.
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West Virginia
The Appalachian Mountain state of West Virginia comprises what were formerly the northwestern counties of Virginia.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin's 145,439 sq km of upper Midwest are dotted with thousands of lakes and bounded by Lake Superior and the Mississippi River.
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Wyoming
Wyoming is a state of many natural resources, from mineral and oil deposits, to varying landscapes and, of course, the people.
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