State

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State or The State may refer to:

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• A sovereign political entity
  • Unitary state
  • Nation-state
  • State (law), a well-defined jurisdiction, with its own set of laws and courts.
• State (country subdivision), a non-sovereign subnational political entity in several countries
  • States and territories of Australia
  • States of Austria
  • States of Brazil
  • States of Germany
  • States and territories of India
  • States of Mexico
  • U.S. state
• The States, an assembly of the representatives of the estates of the realm in a subnational entity
  • The States of Holland
  • The parliaments of the Channel Islands: the States of Jersey and the States of Guernsey
  • States-General, a national assembly of the estates, a legislature
• The States, a colloquial reference to the United States of America
• Colloquially, the US State Department