State Facts

Arkansas has an official law (Arkansas Code § 1-4-105) that specifies exactly how to pronounce the state's name, declaring that saying 'Ar-KAN-zas' is 'an innovation to be discouraged.'

From 1784 to 1789, there was an unrecognized state in what is now the United States called Franklin. This breakaway territory in modern-day East Tennessee attempted to become the 14th state but failed, and the area eventually became part of Tennessee in 1796.

Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!

The state of Wyoming is named after a valley in Pennsylvania.

Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.

Florida has more tornados per square mile than any other state.

Eight U.S. states are named after British royalty - Georgia, the Carolinas, Louisiana, Virginia, Maryland, and New York all trace their names to kings, queens, or royal dukes.