Five of them ( American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. The United States has control over fourteen territories. Congress can admit more states, but it cannot create a new state from territory of an existing state or merge two or more states into one without the consent of all states involved, and each new state is admitted on an equal footing with the existing states. The federal district does not have representatives in the Senate, but has a non-voting delegate in the House, and it is also entitled to electors in the Electoral College. Additionally, each state is entitled to select a number of electors to vote in the Electoral College, the body that elects the president of the United States, equal to the total of representatives and senators in Congress from that state. Each state is represented by two senators, while representatives are distributed among the states in proportion to the most recent constitutionally mandated decennial census. Each state has its own constitution and government, and all states and their residents are represented in the federal Congress, a bicameral legislature consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows states to exercise all powers of government not delegated to the federal government. Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. 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. Protected areas ( Conservation district, National monument, National park).Unorganized Borough / Census area / Villages / District (USVI) / District (AS).Indian reservation ( list) / Hawaiian home land / Alaska Native tribal entity / Pueblo / Off-reservation trust land / Tribal Jurisdictional Area.

Alaska, Hawaii, and the territories are shown at different scales, and the Aleutian Islands and the uninhabited northwestern Hawaiian Islands are omitted from this map. state and Territories of the United States.Ī map of the United States showing its 50 states, federal district and five inhabited territories.

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