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Alabama
Alabama is a Deep South state on the Gulf of Mexico, central to the Civil Rights Movement (Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham) and home to the Marshall Space Flight Center where the Saturn V rocket was developed.
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Alaska
Alaska is the largest US state by area, twice the size of Texas, with Mount Denali (Mount McKinley) — North America's highest peak at 6,190 m — and Arctic tundra populated mostly by indigenous Alaska Natives.
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American Samoa
American Samoa is a US territory in the South Pacific, comprising five volcanic islands and two coral atolls. It is the only US territory south of the equator and home to the National Park of American Samoa.
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Arizona
Arizona is famous for the Grand Canyon, Sonoran Desert saguaro cacti, the historic Native American territories of the Navajo Nation, and Sedona's red-rock landscape.
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Arkansas
Arkansas is a south-central US state of forested mountains in the Ozarks, hot springs, and the Mississippi River delta. It was central to school desegregation when Eisenhower deployed troops to Little Rock in 1957.
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California
California is the most populous US state, the world's fifth-largest economy if it were a country, with Silicon Valley, Hollywood, the Golden Gate Bridge, and landscapes from Death Valley to redwood forests.
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Colorado
Colorado is the highest US state, with 58 mountain peaks above 4,267 m, the Rocky Mountains, world-famous ski resorts at Aspen and Vail, and the geographic centre of the Rocky Mountain West in Denver.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is a small but historically pivotal New England state on Long Island Sound, with a colonial heritage including the Fundamental Orders of 1639 — one of the world's first written constitutions.
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Delaware
Delaware was the first state to ratify the US Constitution on 7 December 1787, earning the nickname 'The First State'. It is the second-smallest US state by area but a major centre for corporate registration.