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Arts, entertainment, and media


Literature

* ''
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 perso ...
'', 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 ''Our State'' (full title: ''Our State: Down Home in North Carolina'') is a monthly magazine based in Greensboro, North Carolina, featuring travel and history articles and photographs about North Carolina people, places and events. First publishe ...
'', a monthly magazine published in North Carolina and formerly called ''The State'' *
The State (Larry Niven) "The State" is a fictional totalitarian world government in a future history that forms the back-story of three of Larry Niven's novels: ''A World Out of Time'' (1976), ''The Integral Trees'' (1984), and '' The Smoke Ring'' (1987). It is also the ...
, 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 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-indepen ...
, 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 p ...
, 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 Nigeria, Constitution of the F ...
, 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 (region of South Sudan), Bahr el Ghazal (northwest), Equatoria (southern), and Greater Upper Nile (northeast). The s ...
, constituent states of South Sudan *** States of Sudan, constituent states of Sudan *** States of Austria, constituent states of Austria *** States and federal territories of Malaysia, constituent monarchies and territories of Malaysia *** States of Micronesia, constituent states of Micronesia *** States and regions of Somalia, constituent states of Somalia *** States of Venezuela, constituent states of Venezuela *** U.S. state, any constituent state of the United States ** States of Palau ** States of Myanmar * ''Rechtsstaat'', 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, 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, 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, is a fixed rule describing the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space


Science and technology


Computing

* State (computer science), a unique configuration of information in a program or machine ** Program state, 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, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital * Mental state


Physics and chemistry

* State, a complete description of a system in classical mechanics * Chemical state, the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element * Quantum state, 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, solid, liquid or gaseous phases of matter; describing the organization of matter in a phase * Thermodynamic state, 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 athletic teams, commonly referred to as "State"


Other uses

* State (theology), 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


See also

* Condition (disambiguation) * Government, the system by which a state or community is controlled * New states (disambiguation) * Stateless (disambiguation) * Status (disambiguation) * The States (disambiguation) * * {{Disambiguation