#American_state  one of the 50 states of the United States
  supertype:  state.administrative_district__province  the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south"
  subtype: {slave_state free_state}
  instance:  Alabama  Alaska  Arizona  Arkansas  California  Colorado  Connecticut  Delaware  Florida  Georgia  Hawaii  Idaho  Illinois  Indiana  Iowa  Kansas  Kentucky  Louisiana  Maine  Maryland  Massachusetts  Michigan  Minnesota  Mississippi  Missouri  Montana  Nebraska  Nevada  New_Hampshire  New_Jersey  New_Mexico  New_York_State  North_Carolina  North_Dakota  Ohio  Oklahoma  Oregon  Pennsylvania  Rhode_Island  South_Carolina  South_Dakota  Tennessee  Texas  Utah  Vermont  Virginia  Washington_State  West_Virginia  Wisconsin  Wyoming
  part:  congressional_district
  part of:  USA__United_States_of_America__United_States__America__US__U.S.__U.S.A.  North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
     part of:  North_America  a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
        part of:  northern_hemisphere  the hemisphere north of the equator
        part of:  western_hemisphere__westernhemisphere__occident__New_World  the hemisphere that includes North and South America
        part of:  the_Americas__America  North and South America

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