State may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Literature

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State Magazine ''State Magazine'' is a digital magazine published by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Global Talent Management. Its mission is to acquaint Department of State employees at home and abroad with developments affecting operations and pers ...

'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * '' Our State'', a monthly magazine published in North Carolina and formerly called ''The State'' * The State (Larry Niven), a fictional future government in three novels by Larry Niven

Music

Groups and labels

* States Records, an American record label * The State (band), Australian band previously known as the Cutters

Albums

* ''State'' (album), a 2013 album by Todd Rundgren * ''States'' (album), a 2013 album by the Paper Kites * ''States'', a 1991 album by

Klinik Klinik, (sometimes called The Klinik), is an industrial music band from Belgium, originally formed around 1982 by electro-synthpop practitioner Marc Verhaeghen, who is the only constant member. History Marc Verhaeghen originally formed Klinik ...

* ''The State'' (album), a 1999 album by Nickelback

Television

* ''The State'' (American TV series), 1993 * ''The State'' (British TV series), 2017

Other

* The State (comedy troupe), an American comedy troupe

Law and politics

State (polity) A state is a centralized political organization that imposes and enforces rules over a population within a territory. There is no undisputed definition of a state. One widely used definition comes from the German sociologist Max Weber: a "sta ...

, a centralized political organization that imposes and enforces rules over a population within a territory. * Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in international law, commonly referred to as a "country" ** List of sovereign states * Nation state, a state (usually sovereign) in which the great majority identify as a single culture (often defined as an ethnic group) * Constituent state, a type of political subdivision of a nation **

Federated state A federated state (which may also be referred to as a state, a province, a region, a canton, a land, a governorate, an oblast, an emirate or a country) is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federation. Such states di ...

, a constituent state that is part of a federal model and shares sovereignty with the federal government ***

States and union territories of India India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, with a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into districts and smaller administrative divisions. History Pre-indep ...

, constituent states of the Republic of India ***

States and territories of Australia The states and territories are federated administrative divisions in Australia, ruled by regional governments that constitute the second level of governance between the federal government and local governments. States are self-governing po ...

, constituent states of Australia ***

States of Brazil The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which ...

, constituent states of Brazil *** States of Germany, constituent states of Germany ***

States of Mexico The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a separate ent ...

, constituent states of Mexico ***

States of Nigeria Nigeria is a federation of 36 states and 1 federal capital territory. Each of the 36 states is a semi-autonomous political unit that shares powers with the federal government as enumerated under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nige ...

, constituent states of Nigeria ***

States of South Sudan The States of South Sudan were created out of the three historic former provinces (and contemporary regions) of Bahr el Ghazal (northwest), Equatoria (southern), and Greater Upper Nile (northeast). The states are further divided into 79 coun ...

, constituent states of South Sudan ***

States of Sudan Below is a list of the 18 states of the Sudan (Arabic names are in parentheses). Prior to 9 July 2011, the Republic of the Sudan was composed of 25 states. The ten southern states now form part of the independent country of South Sudan. Two addi ...

, constituent states of Sudan ***

States of Austria Austria is a federal republic made up of nine states (German: ''Länder''). Since ''Land'' is also the German word for "country", the term ''Bundesländer'' (literally ''federal states'') is often used instead to avoid ambiguity. The Constitution ...

, constituent states of Austria ***

States and federal territories of Malaysia The states and federal territories of Malaysia are the principal administrative divisions of Malaysia. Malaysia is a federation of 13 states (''Negeri'') and 3 federal territories (''Wilayah Persekutuan''). States and federal territories Ele ...

, constituent monarchies and territories of Malaysia ***

States of Micronesia The Federated States of Micronesia is a federation divided into four states, which are further divided into various cities and municipalities. States Cities *Palikir, Pohnpei State – ''National capital'' * Colonia, Yap State * Kolonia, P ...

, constituent states of Micronesia ***

States and regions of Somalia Somalia is a federal republic consisting of six federal states, including Somaliland, as well as the Banadir Regional Administration. Somalia is further subdivided into Eighteen administrative regions (''gobollada'', singular ''gobol''), which ar ...

, constituent states of Somalia ***

States of Venezuela The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a federation made up of twenty-three states ('' es, estados''), a Capital District ('' es, Distrito Capital'') and the Federal Dependencies ('' es, Dependencias Federales''), which consist of many is ...

, constituent states of Venezuela ***

U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sov ...

, any constituent state of the United States **

States of Palau Palau is divided into sixteen administrative regions, called states. Palau has a high ratio of government offices to citizens, with 16 states and both a tribal chiefdom and elected legislature in each state, for 20,000 people.''Patterson, Carolyn ...

** States of Myanmar * ''

Rechtsstaat ''Rechtsstaat'' (lit. "state of law"; "legal state") is a doctrine in continental European legal thinking, originating in Dutch and German jurisprudence. It can be translated into English as "rule of law", alternatively "legal state", state ...

'', the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in the philosophy of law and as a principle of many national constitutions * The Estates or the States, a national assembly of the estates of the realm, an early form of legislature that was common throughout feudal Europe *

United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other na ...

, a division of the executive branch of the United States federal government, dealing with foreign affairs; sometimes referred to as "State", for short, in American political jargon.

Locations

State College, Pennsylvania State College is a Home Rule Municipality (Pennsylvania), home rule municipality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Centre County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is a college town, dominated economically, culturally and demographically by ...

, a city in the United States, often referred to informally as "State" ** State College Area High School, or "State High" * State station, subway station in Boston * State station (CTA), in Chicago

Mathematics

* State (controls), a term related to control theory * State (functional analysis), a positive linear functional on an operator algebra * State, in

dynamical systems In mathematics, a dynamical system is a system in which a function describes the time dependence of a point in an ambient space. Examples include the mathematical models that describe the swinging of a clock pendulum, the flow of water in a ...

, is a fixed rule describing the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space

Science and technology

Computing

State (computer science) In information technology and computer science, a system is described as stateful if it is designed to remember preceding events or user interactions; the remembered information is called the state of the system. The set of states a system can oc ...

, a unique configuration of information in a program or machine **

Program state In information technology and computer science, a system is described as stateful if it is designed to remember preceding events or user interactions; the remembered information is called the state of the system. The set of states a system can oc ...

, in computer science, a snapshot of the measure of various conditions in the system * State (website), semantic web platform created by London, UK-based Equal Media Ltd * State pattern, in computer science, a behavioral design pattern

Healthcare

Medical state Medical state is a term used to describe a hospital patient's health status, or condition. The term is most commonly used in information given to the news media, and is rarely used as a clinical description by physicians. Two aspects of the pati ...

, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital *

Mental state A mental state, or a mental property, is a state of mind of a person. Mental states comprise a diverse class, including perception, pain experience, belief, desire, intention, emotion, and memory. There is controversy concerning the exact definiti ...

Physics and chemistry

* State, a complete description of a system in

classical mechanics Classical mechanics is a physical theory describing the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, and astronomical objects, such as spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies. For objects governed by classical mec ...

* Chemical state, the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element *

Quantum state In quantum physics, a quantum state is a mathematical entity that provides a probability distribution for the outcomes of each possible measurement on a system. Knowledge of the quantum state together with the rules for the system's evolution i ...

, the state of a quantum mechanical system given by a vector in the underlying Hilbert space * Stationary state, an eigenvector of a Hamiltonian *

State of matter In physics, a state of matter is one of the distinct forms in which matter can exist. Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Many intermediate states are known to exist, such as liquid crysta ...

, solid, liquid or gaseous phases of matter; describing the organization of matter in a phase *

Thermodynamic state In thermodynamics, a thermodynamic state of a system is its condition at a specific time; that is, fully identified by values of a suitable set of parameters known as state variables, state parameters or thermodynamic variables. Once such a set ...

, a set of physical quantities describing variable properties of a given thermodynamic system

Printing

* State (printmaking), distinct revisions of a work by a deliberate change to the print master

Universities

* Ball State University, in Muncie, United States * Michigan State University, in East Lansing, United States **

Michigan State Spartans The Michigan State Spartans are the athletic teams that represent Michigan State University. The school's athletic program includes 23 varsity sports teams. Their mascot is a Spartan warrior named Sparty, and the school colors are green and wh ...

, the athletic teams, commonly referred to as "State"

Other uses

State (theology) Christian mysticism is the tradition of mystical practices and mystical theology within Christianity which "concerns the preparation f the personfor, the consciousness of, and the effect of ..a direct and transformative presence of God" ...

, a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion * State Theatre (disambiguation), several theatres * States (automobile), cyclecar manufactured by the States Cyclecar Co of Detroit, Michigan in 1915