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the united states of america are a federal country their territory is therefore divided into 50 states 48 continental plus alaska and hawaii there's a joke that nobody can successfully name the 50 states in one sitting ever since friends did an episode where ross went crazy trying to figure it out in this video we're not just going to list out the 50 states we're going to understand why each of them has the name that it does let's start with some general characterizations state names come from a variety of languages 24 derived from indigenous languages of the americas the native american idioms although sometimes through european adaptations 22 other state names derive from actual european languages and words and the six remaining ones have unclear origins but we'll get to those in a minute of the 50 states 11 are named after an individual person of those 11 7 are named in honor of european monarchs the two carolinas the two virginias maryland louisiana and georgia over the years several attempts have been made to name a state after one of the founding fathers or other great statesmen of us history the state of franklin jefferson lincoln and washington with only the last one becoming a state name the origin of the names vary a lot depending on each state as we'll see now but there is a somewhat common pattern in many of them having the initial origin in a native tribal group of the region that led to the naming of a local river then to a colonial territory that shared the name with the river and then transitioning into statehood so now let's go one by one and understand the known or predicted origin of each state i posted timestamps in the description by the way so if you want to skip ahead to a specific state you can use that starting with the two non-contiguous states alaska's name comes from a native language aleut spoken in this chain of islands they use the word alaska which i'm mispronouncing to describe the meaning of mainland or if we literally translate it the object towards which the action of the sea is directed so the place where the waves hit i guess alaska was first colonized by the russian empire who then sold it to the united states in this native word alyaska the name the empire baptized their colony with in the year 1666 hawaii's name origen on the other hand is less certain the first year in which the usage of the name hawaii is registered was in 1879 with the original spelling having an apostrophe between the eyes the origin is uncertain because there are two hypotheses one is it coming from hawaiki meaning place of the gods the mythological homeland of the polynesians and the other is it being named after a wai loa a legendary discoverer of the hawaiian islands moving to the continental united states let's start in the...