#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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