Jim Witherell: Postal officials were no nonsense in 1963, insisting on two-letter abbreviations for all states. And except for Nebraska, it stuck.

The North Star State uses “MN” as its abbreviation, leaving “MT” for Montana (which, by the way, is nicknamed the Treasure State). See if you can guess 20 U.S. states by their nicknames ...

All you have to know for this is that we have 50 states in America, ... Up until 1973, every state had its own length of abbreviation, and it was chaos. Like, Massachusetts was M-A-S-S-period.

The United States of America are a large, important country. There are 50 states and a great number of big, famous cities in that ... of 4 students, you must: Produce a map of the United States of ...