U.S. City Information & Travel
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CITYology .com is your online city resource for 26,000 United States cities and towns, our hometowns and villages. Links and search boxes are provided for a variety of subjects from maps and directions to colleges, businesses and accommodations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pointing you in the right direction for information is what we do. Since 1999 we have been helping readers connect information about products and services to cities and villages throughout the United States. We are your Hometown Locator for Information.
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The United States of America, also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States, is a federal republic of 50 states, located primarily in North America. The United States has land borders with Canada and Mexico, and territorial water boundaries with Canada, Russia and the Bahamas. It is otherwise bounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea, the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. Forty-eight of the states—often referred to as the continental, contiguous or Lower 48 states—are located in a single region between Canada and Mexico. The other two, Alaska and the archipelago of Hawaii, are not contiguous with the others. There is a federal district, the District of Columbia named 'Columbia' for the old poetic name for the country, comprising the capital, Washington, D.C. State and local governments - The state governments have the greatest influence over people's daily lives. Each state has its own written constitution and has different laws. There are sometimes great differences in law and procedure between the different states, concerning issues such as property, crime, health, and education. The highest elected official of each state is the Governor. Each state also has an elected legislature (bicameral in every state except Nebraska), whose members represent the different parts of the state. Of note is the New Hampshire legislature, which is the third-largest legislative body in the English-speaking world, and has one representative for every 3,000 people. Each state maintains its own judiciary, with the lowest level typically being county courts, and culminating in each state supreme court, though sometimes named differently. In some states, supreme and lower court justices are elected by the people; in others, they are appointed, as they are in the federal system. |
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