Introduction Mississippi (abbr.: MS or Miss.), state of the United States of America, 123,584 km2, with 2.5 million inhabitants; capital city: Jackson. Physical Geography The soil shows little relief and is generally sloping to hilly. The 20 to 25 km wide coastal strip is only a few meters above sea level; the hinterland has an…
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Minnesota
Introduction Minnesota (abbr.: MN or Minn.), state of the United States of America, bordered by Canada (northern border) and the states of Wisconsin (eastern border), Iowa (southern border), and South Dakota and North Dakota (western border), 217,736 km2, with 4.3 million inhabitants; capital: Saint Paul. Physical Geography Minnesota is mostly flat prairie land; the northeastern…
Michigan
Introduction Michigan (abbr.: MI or Mich.), state of the United States of America, 150,779 km2, with 9.3 million inhabitants; capital: Lansing. Physical Geography Michigan consists of two peninsulas, the southern part separated from the northern by Mackinac Strait. About 2,600 km2 of Michigan’s surface area consists of inland waterways (numerous rivers and more than 11,000…
Massachusetts
Introduction Massachusetts (abbr.: MA or Mass.), state of the United States of America, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the states of Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire, 21,408 km2, with 6 million inhabitants; capital city: Boston. The name Massachusetts is taken from a Native American name and probably means ‘by the…
Maryland
Introduction Maryland (abbr.: MD or Md), state of the United States of America, bordered by Pennsylvania, Delaware, the Atlantic Ocean, Virginia and West Virginia, 27,394 km2, with 4.8 million inhabitants; Capital: Annapolis. Physical Geography The state extends a great distance west from the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the coastal plain (Atlantic Plain) is separated into…
Maine
Introduction Maine (abbreviation: ME or Me), state of the United States of America, 86,027 km2, with 1.2 million inhabitants; capital: Augusta. Physical Geography Maine is part of the Appalachians. Three regions can be distinguished: a. The coastal strip is strongly articulated with many peninsulas; off the coast are more than 1,300 islands. (The name Maine…
Louisiana
Introduction Louisiana (abbr.: LA), state of the United States of America, on the Gulf of Mexico, 125,675 km2, with 4.2 million inhabitants; Capital: Baton Rouge. Physical Geography Louisiana is part of the coastal plain along the Gulf of Mexico and of the Mississippi River Basin. About 50% of the area is occupied by the coastal…
Kentucky
Introduction Kentucky (abbreviation: KY or KY), state of the United States of America, in the eastern part of the country, 104,600 km2, with 3.7 million inhabitants; capital city: Frankfurt. Physical Geography The east of the state is part of the Allegheny Mountains. To the west of this is a plateau, consisting of the Cumberland Plateau…
Kansas
Introduction Kansas (abbr.: Kans.), state of the United States of America, in the Midwest, 213,063 km2, with 2.5 million inhabitants; capital: Topeka. Physical Geography The Great Plains in the west of the state gradually merge into the prairies in the east. Almost the entire area of Kansas shows a drop from west to east (from…
Iowa
Introduction Iowa (abbr.: IA or Ia.), state of the United States of America, in the Midwest, 145,753 km2, with 2.7 million inhabitants; Capital: Des Moines. The state was named in 1846 after the Iowa River, a tributary of the Mississippi, which in turn was named after the Ioway or Kiowa Indian tribes. Physical Geography Iowa…
Indiana
Introduction Indiana (abbr.: IN or Ind.), state of the United States of America, in the Midwest, 93,730 km2, with 5.5 million inhabitants; Capital: Indianapolis. French researchers gave the area the name Indiana around the beginning of the 18th century, after the Indians who lived there. By 1830 all original inhabitants had been expelled or killed….
Illinois
Introduction Illinois (abbr.: IL or Ill.), state of the United States of America, in the Midwest, 145,934 km2, with 11.4 million inhabitants; capital city: Springfield. The state got its name from French settlers, who named it after the tribe of the Illini Indians living here at the time; in Algonqui spoken by those Indians, illini…
Idaho
Introduction Idaho (abbr.: ID or Id.), state of the United States of America, in the northwest, 216,432 km2, with 1.0 million inhabitants; capital: Boise. The name is probably derived from the Indian word e-da-how (= the sun rises). Physical Geography Idaho is one of the most hilly states in the United States (average elevation: 1,500…
Hawaii
Introduction Hawaii (abbr.: HI or Hi.), state of the United States of America, comprising the Hawaii Islands in the Pacific Ocean, about 3,860 km from San Francisco (California), 28,313 km2 (land area, incl. inland waterways ), with 1.1 million inhabitants; Capital: Honolulu, on the island of Oahu. The archipelago consists of 8 main islands and…
Georgia
Introduction Georgia (abbr.: GA or Ga.), state of the United States of America, in the east of the country on the Atlantic Ocean, 152,576 km2, with 6.5 million inhabitants; capital: Atlanta. Physical Geography Most of the state, about 60%, is taken up by the gently undulating coastal plain or Coastal Plain. In the Fall Line…
Florida
Introduction Florida (abbr.: FL or Fla.), is located in the extreme southeast of the United States of America, 151,939 km2, of which approximately 11,000 km2 is water, with 13 million inhabitants; capital city: Tallahassee. Physical Geography The state consists mainly of a peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Thick limestone formations,…
Delaware
Introduction Delaware (abbr.: DE or Del.), state of the United States of America, bordered by Maryland to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north and the Delaware Bay to the east, 5295 km2, with 666,000 inhabitants; capital: Dover. Physical Geography The state is largely located on the Delmarva Peninsula in the Atlantic Coastal Plain…
Connecticut
Introduction Connecticut (abbr.: CT or Conn.), state in the northeastern United States of America, 12,997 km2, with 3.3 million inhabitants; capital city: Hartford. Physical Geography The lower reaches of the Connecticut River (660 km long) split the state into a mountainous western and lower eastern region. Due to the many bays and coves, the coastline…
Colorado
Introduction Colorado (abbr.: CO or Colo.), state of the United States of America, 296,596 km2, with 3.3 million inhabitants; capital city: Denver. Physical Geography Colorado is the highest state in the United States (averaging more than 2000 m above sea level) and is divided into three major landscapes: from east to west the Great Plains,…
California
Introduction California (Eng.: California; abbreviation: CA or Cal.), state of the United States of America, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west, Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and Mexico to the south, 411,049 km2, with 29.7 million inhabitants; capital: Sacramento. Physical Geography From a landscape point of view, California…
Arkansas
Introduction Arkansas (abbr.: AR or Ark.), state in the south of the United States of America, 137,539 km2, with 2.35 million inhabitants; capital city: Little Rock. Physical Geography Arkansas encompasses the swamp and lake-rich prairie region on either side of the lower Arkansas River, with the forested Ozark Plateau and the Ouachita Mountains. The eastern…
Arizona
Introduction Arizona (abbr.: AZ or Ariz.), state of the United States of America, in the southwest, 295,023 km2, with 3.6 million inhabitants; capital city: Phoenix. Physical Geography Arizona consists of three parts: in the north the horizontally stratified Colorado Plateau (here up to 2200 m high), in which the Colorado and its tributaries have carved…
Alaska
Introduction Alaska (abbr.: AK), state of the United States of America, in the extreme northwest of North America, 1,518,775 km2, with 550,000 inhabitants; capital city: Juneau. Physical Geography Alaska, by far the largest state in the United States (more than twice the size of Texas), also covers the 800 km long Alaska Peninsula, a narrow…
Alabama
Introduction Alabama (abbr.: AL or Ala.), state in the southeastern United States of America, on the Gulf of Mexico, 133,667 km2, with about 4.04 million inhabitants; Capital: Montgomery. Physical Geography Alabama stretches from the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in the north across the fertile Black Earth regions (the Black Belt) to the swampy Gulf…
DX – Diagnosis
Diagnosis is a word that has its etymological origin in Greek and even more so in the union of three words of that language. Specifically, it is a term that is formed by the prefix diag- which means “through”; the word gnosis which is a synonym of “knowledge”, and finally the suffix -tico which is…
DIS – Displacement
Displacement refers to the fact of moving and its consequences. This verb, on the other hand, has various uses: it can refer to moving from place to place, removing someone from a position or traveling from one place to another, among other issues. See Abbreviation Finder for acronyms related to Displacement. For example: «The movement through…
JD – Job Description
The idea of job description is used in the labor field to refer to the documents that detail the tasks and responsibilities inherent to each job. The necessary requirements, the activities to be carried out, the scope of execution and the relationship between the different positions in an organization are some of the data that…
D – Decolonization
Decolonization implies the end of a colonial rule that was exercised over a territory. This assumes that the region in question is no longer a colony (an area dominated by a foreign power). On a political level, a colony is a land that is governed and administered by a distant country. The inhabitants of the…
PL – Procedural Law
The law can be divided into a large number of branches and specializations, whose object of study focuses on various aspects of reality. In the case of procedural law, it is the one that is oriented to criminal and civil processes and is framed within public law. Procedural law, therefore, is the division of law…
Toothpaste
The first step that we are going to take is to proceed to know the etymological origin of the term toothpaste. In this case we can state that it is a word that derives from Latin. Exactly it emanates from the sum of “dens, dentis”, which can be translated as “tooth”, and the verb “fricare”,…