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      • Long Island, island in the Atlantic Ocean that comprises the southeasternmost part of New York state, U.S. The island lies roughly parallel to the southern shore of Connecticut, from which it is separated to the north by Long Island Sound.
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    Long Island is an island in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area. The island extends from New York Harbor 118 miles (190 km) eastward into the North Atlantic Ocean with a maximum north–south width of 23 miles (37 km).

  3. This article lists the 50 states of the United States. It also lists their populations, the date they became a state or agreed to the United States Declaration of Independence, their total area, land area, water area, and the number of representatives in the United States House of Representatives.

    Flag, Name And Postal Abbreviation [1]
    Flag, Name And Postal Abbreviation [1]
    Cities(capital)
    Cities(largest (by Population) [5])
    AL
    AK
    AZ
    AR
  4. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.

    State Name
    Date First Attested In Original Language
    Language Of Origin
    Word (s) In Original Language
    April 19, 1692
    Choctaw / Alabama
    alba amo / Albaamaha
    December 2, 1666
    Aleut via Russian
    alaxsxaq via Аляска ( Alyaska)
    February 1, 1883
    aritz ona
    February 1, 1883
    Oʼodham via Spanish
    ali ṣona-g via Arizonac [7]
  5. Aug 1, 2023 · Why are there four states whose names begin New? And why are there two different spellings of Hawaii? In this article, we will answer all of these questions and more as we cover how all 50 states got their names.

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  6. 3 days ago · Long Island, island in the Atlantic Ocean that comprises the southeasternmost part of New York state, U.S. The island lies roughly parallel to the southern shore of Connecticut, from which it is separated to the north by Long Island Sound.

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  7. The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions.

  8. Apr 2, 2019 · Roughly half of the state names in the U.S. can trace their origins back to the Native American tribes who inhabited the land long before the arrival of the first European settlers around the 16th and 17th centuries — the settlers who, generations later, would eventually establish what would be known as the United States of America.

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