Choose a state or territory
Explore all 50 states, Washington, D.C., the five major inhabited territories and nine individual outlying islands. The federal district and territories are labeled separately from states. Existing territory guides remain at their established addresses.
Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau are independent freely associated states, not U.S. territories, and are not counted in this directory.
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Alabama
Civil rights, river towns and the Gulf Coast
Alaska
Glaciers, long coastlines and northern light
Arizona
Canyon country and desert cities
Arkansas
Ozark rivers and bathhouse history
California
Pacific cities, mountains and agricultural valleys
Colorado
Rocky Mountain heights and ancestral landscapes
Connecticut
Maritime towns and New England interiors
Delaware
Colonial towns and Atlantic beaches
Florida
Subtropical wetlands and Atlantic-Caribbean crossroads
Georgia
Civil-rights history and coastal squares
Hawaii
Volcanic islands and a living Hawaiian culture
Idaho
River canyons and volcanic plains
Illinois
Great Lakes architecture and prairie history
Indiana
Dunes, design and the crossroads of the Midwest
Iowa
Prairie agriculture and Mississippi River towns
Kansas
Tallgrass prairie and trails across the continent
Kentucky
Limestone caves and the Bluegrass landscape
Louisiana
Creole cities, Cajun country and the Mississippi
Maine
Rocky shores and forested interiors
Maryland
The Chesapeake and the road west
Massachusetts
Revolutionary streets and Atlantic peninsulas
Michigan
Two peninsulas on the Great Lakes
Minnesota
Twin Cities and northern waters
Mississippi
Blues country and the river's long history
Missouri
River gateways and Ozark country
Montana
Northern Rockies and the plains beyond
Nebraska
Prairie routes and the Sandhills
Nevada
Basin-and-range landscapes beyond the neon
New Hampshire
White Mountain paths and a compact coast
New Jersey
Atlantic shorelines and industrial reinvention
New Mexico
Pueblo histories and high-desert horizons
New York
A global city and the landscapes beyond it
North Carolina
Appalachian ridges and barrier islands
North Dakota
Badlands, grasslands and the Missouri River
Ohio
Lake Erie cities and ancient earthworks
Oklahoma
Native nations and the Southern Plains
Oregon
Pacific headlands and volcanic high country
Pennsylvania
Founding documents and industrial landscapes
Rhode Island
Narragansett Bay and maritime wealth
South Carolina
Lowcountry waterways and inland forests
South Dakota
Black Hills, badlands and prairie histories
Tennessee
Music cities and Appalachian ridges
Texas
Borderlands, big cities and enormous distances
Utah
Red-rock country and the Wasatch front
Vermont
Green Mountain villages and working farms
Virginia
Colonial sites and Blue Ridge landscapes
Washington
Pacific rainforests and Cascade volcanoes
West Virginia
Appalachian rivers and industrial memory
Wisconsin
Great Lakes shores and dairy country
Wyoming
High plains and the Yellowstone country
District of Columbia
Monuments and a living capital
American Samoa
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Guam
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Northern Mariana Islands
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Puerto Rico
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U.S. Virgin Islands
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Baker Island
A low coral island near the equator
Howland Island
A remote island in aviation history
Jarvis Island
Equatorial isolation and seabird habitat
Johnston Atoll
A military landscape returning to wildlife
Kingman Reef
A reef with very little dry land
Midway Atoll
Seabirds and the memory of a Pacific battle
Navassa Island
A raised island between Haiti and Jamaica
Palmyra Atoll
An incorporated territory and research landscape
Wake Island
An atoll shaped by aviation and war
Geography and classification
Use the USAGov government directory and the Department of the Interior's definitions for official context. Outlying-island pages explain restricted access and do not present protected or operational islands as ordinary tourist destinations.