How many states are there in the United States? I cannot believe I am asking thi!


Question: Just left a party and there were 6 adults present. 5 Americans & 1 Canadian. We starting talking about the American Flag and someone said that there is 52 states in the US...........and it wasn't the Canadian!!! My husband, myself and the Canadian all agreed there are 50 the other 3 "so called" Americans argued that there are 52. Please help us put this question to bed. Are there 50 states or 52 states? Any links to websites would be great for me to rub it in their faces when you guys all agree with me that there are in fact 50states!!!

I even counted all of the stars on the flag to show them that there are 50 stars representing each state and they said it must be an old flag!!!!


Answers: Just left a party and there were 6 adults present. 5 Americans & 1 Canadian. We starting talking about the American Flag and someone said that there is 52 states in the US...........and it wasn't the Canadian!!! My husband, myself and the Canadian all agreed there are 50 the other 3 "so called" Americans argued that there are 52. Please help us put this question to bed. Are there 50 states or 52 states? Any links to websites would be great for me to rub it in their faces when you guys all agree with me that there are in fact 50states!!!

I even counted all of the stars on the flag to show them that there are 50 stars representing each state and they said it must be an old flag!!!!

49 states in the north American Continent and one island group in the Pacific and various Territory's and trusts. 50 states.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/america...

I think it's 50.

50 states

http://www.50states.com

They were either joking or incredibly stupid 50 is the correct number since 1960.

50. You were correct.

50 for sure :)

52 virgin islands and another one
there are 52 it said on miss america!
Edit: hahaha! Ok there are only 50!

Fifty

Seems strange but there have been 50 states longer
than there were 48. Time do fly.

its 50 ha

there is one,....
america
its a giant state

50 that are all connected, but we can't forget Alaska and Hawaii! That makes 52 ;)

If you think about it they're like 600 states but only like 4billion developed potato bug space ships that pilot themselves..........



stupid question gets a stupid answer! caca!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.myspace.com/kidicarusistheshi...

Copied and pasted from Wikipedia-
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to its east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait, and the state of Hawaii is in the mid-Pacific. The United States also possesses several territories, or insular areas, that are scattered around the Caribbean and Pacific.

There are 50 states.
I'd add the link itself but Yahoo! won't allow me to.

uhh 50?

come on now haha

Okay ya'll
There are 50 states
1. Alaska
2. Arkansas
3. Alabama
4. Arizona
5. California
6. Colorado
7. Connecticut
8. Delaware
9. Florida
10.Georgia
11.Hawaii
12. Idaho
13.Iowa
14. Illinois
15. Indiana
16. Kansas
17.Kentucky
18. Louisiana
19. Maine
20. Maryland
21. Massachusetts
22. Mississippi
23. Missouri
24. Minnesota
25.Michigan
26.Montana
27. Nebraska
28. Nevada
29. New Jersey
30. New Hampshire
31. New York
32.New Mexico
33. North Carolina
34. North Dakota
35. Oklahoma
36. Oregon
37. Ohio
38. Pennsylvania
39. Rhode Island
40. South Carolina
41. South Dakota
42. Tennessee
43. Texas
44. Utah
45. Vermont
46. Virginia
47. West Virginia
48.Washington
49. Wyoming
50. Wisconsin

The reason there are 52 contestants on Miss America is because of Virgin Island (which isn't a state but a territory owned by the Us) And District of Columbia (Washington DC..again not a state!) Count the stars on the flag and there will be 50 of them!

It's 50. There are proposals to make Puerto Rico a state. And proposals to make Washington DC have the same representation as a state...two Senators and one representative.

I guess they must have counted the State of the Union and their State of Confusion.

They are "50 States"... Not one less and not one more.
-People makes the mistake that "Puerto Rico" is a state but it is a commonwealth, not a state.
-The other mistake is that Washington D.C. is the capital and a dependency of another state under the directions of the senate. Washington D.C. is Only A City, and does Nothing To Do with the state "Washington" which was proclaimed as the 42nd state in 1889.
-Washington state and Washington D.C. have nothing to do with each other

The last two states admitted to the USA union were:
As state Number 49 is Alaska, on January 3, 1959.
The last state or the Number 50 state is Hawaii, on August 21, 1959.

-The USA Commonwealth are: Puerto Rico (including Northern Mariana Islands), American Samoa, Guam, and The Virgin Islands which are: St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas.

-The USA Territories are: Baker Islands, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, Navassa Island, Palau, Palmyra Atoll, and Wake Island.

And, don't worry, you-are-right. They do not want to admit they're wrong or they are just misinformed. The 50 states are represented on our flag with a star for each one of them.



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