List of State Abbreviations
As you know, there are 50 states in the United States of America. Many times the state abbreviations are simply the first and last letter of that state such as California – CA or Maryland – MD, these are fairly easy to remember.
Other times the 2 letters that make up the state abbreviation such as Michigan – MI, Mississippi – MS don’t work this way making it hard to remember the state abbreviation for all of the states.
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If the state is 2 words like North Dakota, West Virginia, Rhode Island, or New Hampshire, it’s always the first letter of each word.
One thing they always have in common is the first letter is the first letter of the state. As I mentioned, with the one word states, the second letter is not always the last as you can see from the list of state abbreviations below.
Use this handy list of U.S. state abbreviations to quickly find the abbreviation for all 50 states!
U. S. state abbreviations in alphabetical order
- AL – Alabama
- AK – Alaska
- AZ – Arizona
- AR – Arkansas
- CA – California
- CO – Colorado
- CT – Connecticut
- DE – Delaware
- FL – Florida
- GA – Georgia
- HI – Hawaii
- ID – Idaho
- IL – Illinois
- IN – Indiana
- IA – Iowa
- KS – Kansas
- KY – Kentucky
- LA – Louisiana
- ME – Maine
- MD – Maryland
- MA – Massachusetts
- MI – Michigan
- MN – Minnesota
- MS – Mississippi
- MO – Missouri
- MT – Montana
- NE – Nebraska
- NV – Nevada
- NH – New Hampshire
- NJ – New Jersey
- NM – New Mexico
- NY – New York
- NC – North Carolina
- ND – North Dakota
- OH – Ohio
- OK – Oklahoma
- OR – Oregon
- PA – Pennsylvania
- RI – Rhode Island
- SC – South Carolina
- SD – South Dakota
- TN – Tennessee
- TX – Texas
- UT – Utah
- VT – Vermont
- VA – Virginia
- WA – Washington
- WV – West Virginia
- WI – Wisconsin
- WY – Wyoming
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🔤 Trivia Time: What Letter is Not in Any State Name?
