State most commonly refers to:
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State (polity)
A state is a politics, political entity that regulates society and the population within a definite territory. Government is considered to form the fundamental apparatus of contemporary states.
A country often has a single state, with various a ...
, a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
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Sovereign state
A sovereign state is a State (polity), state that has the highest authority over a territory. It is commonly understood that Sovereignty#Sovereignty and independence, a sovereign state is independent. When referring to a specific polity, the ter ...
, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
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Nation state, a state where the majority identify with a single nation (with shared culture or ethnic group)
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Constituent state, a political subdivision of a state
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Federated state
A federated state (also State (polity), state, province, region, Canton (administrative division), canton, Länder, land, governorate, oblast, emirate, or country) is a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federation ...
, constituent states part of a federation
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U.S. state
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State of nature, a concept within philosophy that describes the way humans acted before forming societies or civilizations
State may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Literature
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State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State
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''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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Our State'', a monthly magazine published in North Carolina and formerly called ''The State''
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The State (Larry Niven), a fictional future government in three novels by Larry Niven
Music
Groups and labels
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States Records, an American record label
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The State (band), Australian band previously known as the Cutters
Albums
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''State'' (album), a 2013 album by Todd Rundgren
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''States'' (album), a 2013 album by the Paper Kites
* ''States'', a 1991 album by
Klinik
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''The State'' (album), a 1999 album by Nickelback
Songs
* "The State", a 2011 song by Porter Robinson from ''
Spitfire''
Television
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''The State'' (American TV series), 1993
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''The State'' (British TV series), 2017
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State (Friday Night Lights), an episode of the TV series Friday Night Lights
Other
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State Theatre (disambiguation), several theatres
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The State (comedy troupe), an American comedy troupe
Law and politics
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Rechtsstaat'', the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in the philosophy of law and as a principle of many national constitutions
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy of the United 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.
Federated states:
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States of Australia
The states and territories are the national subdivisions and second level of government of Australia. The states are partially sovereign, administrative divisions that are self-governing polities, having ceded some sovereign rights to the f ...
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States of Austria
Austria is a federal republic consisting of nine federal states. The European Commission calls them provinces. Austrian federal states can pass laws that stay within the limits of the constitution, and each federal state has representatives in ...
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States of Brazil
The federative units of Brazil () 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 together form the Brazil, Federat ...
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States of Germany
The Federal Republic of Germany is a federation and consists of sixteen partly sovereign ''states''. Of the sixteen states, thirteen are so-called area-states ('Flächenländer'); in these, below the level of the state government, there is a ...
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States of India
State most commonly refers to:
* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
** Nation state, ...
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States of Malaysia
Malaysia is a federation of thirteen federated state, states and three federal Territories of Malaysia, federal territories, which form the primary administrative division, administrative divisions of the country. Eleven states and two territ ...
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States of Mexico
A Mexican State (), officially the Free and Sovereign State (), is a constituent Federated state, federative Polity, entity of Mexico according to the Constitution of Mexico. Currently there are 31 states, each with its own constitution, State g ...
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States of Micronesia
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States of Nigeria
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States of Somalia
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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 ...
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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 ad ...
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States of the United States
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States of Venezuela
Constituent states:
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States of Myanmar
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States of Palau
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:
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States of Alderney, the government and parliament of Alderney
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States of Deliberation, the government and parliament of Guernsey
* States of Jersey, including the
States Assembly parliament and the Government of Jersey executive
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States-General (disambiguation), a name for several historic and current national assemblies
Locations
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State College, Pennsylvania, a city in the United States, often referred to informally as "State"
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State College Area High School, or "State High"
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State station, subway station in Boston
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State station (CTA), in Chicago
Mathematics
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State (controls), a term related to control theory
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State (functional analysis), a positive linear functional on an operator algebra
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dynamical systems, is a fixed rule describing the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space
Science and technology
Computing
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State (computer science), a unique configuration of information in a program or machine
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Program state, in computer science, a snapshot of the measure of various conditions in the system
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State (website), semantic web platform created by London, UK-based Equal Media Ltd
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State pattern, in computer science, a behavioral design pattern
Healthcare
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Medical state, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital
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Mental state
Physics and chemistry
* State, a complete description of a system in
classical mechanics
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Chemical state, the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element
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Quantum state, the state of a quantum mechanical system given by a vector in the underlying Hilbert space
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Stationary state, an eigenvector of a Hamiltonian
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State of matter, solid, liquid or gaseous phases of matter; describing the organization of matter in a phase
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Thermodynamic state, a set of physical quantities describing variable properties of a given thermodynamic system
Printing
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State (printmaking), distinct revisions of a work by a deliberate change to the print master
Universities
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Ball State University, in Muncie, United States
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Georgia State University, in Atlanta, United States
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Michigan State University, in East Lansing, United States
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Michigan State Spartans, the athletic teams, commonly referred to as "State"
Other uses
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State (theology), a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion
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States (automobile), cyclecar manufactured by the States Cyclecar Co of Detroit, Michigan in 1915
See also
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Condition (disambiguation)
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Government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a State (polity), state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...
, the system by which a state or community is controlled
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New states (disambiguation)
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Stateless (disambiguation)
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Status (disambiguation)
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The States (disambiguation)
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