Welcome to Stately Knowledge!
Facts about the United States

These web pages will help you find out the basic facts of any state in the Union, including Washington, D.C. Need to know the capital of Alabama? Want to know which hockey teams are in California? How about the size of Montana? All that information is here — and more!

Pick A State:

The above map is intended to make it easy to navigate the IPL's Stately Knowledge website.
To do that, we could not accurately depict the size and location of some states.
Alaska is larger than how we depict it above. Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas!
Alaska is also much further north and west than how we depict it above.
Hawaii is further south and much further west than how we depict it above.

Can't see the map above? Try our state link list below or get the Flash plugin for your browser.

Internet Explorer users may have to double-click the map
(once to activate it and once to select a state).

Want to zoom in on the map above? Hover your mouse pointer over where you want to zoom in. Press the right-click button on your mouse. (Mac users with a single-button mouse should press "Control" or "Ctrl" key and click the mouse button.) Then select from the new menu that appears the "Zoom In" option.

If you're interested in state rankings — for example, you want to know the third largest state — check out the Stately Knowledge Charts below.

Stately Knowledge Charts

Comparison of Size and Population
- Each state is ranked by population, total area, land area, water area, and population density.
Stately Dates: The Dates Each State Entered the Union
Chart of Knowledge: Capitals, Largest Cities, Birds, and Flowers

Need More Information?

State Link List

Updated on 19 Aug 2003

What is the IPL?

The Internet Public Library is a public library for the world wide web.
Students from a consortium of colleges and universities with programs in information science develop and maintain the IPL!
Here are some of the partners in the IPL Consortium. A complete list is found on the IPL Consortium page.

The Internet Public Library is hosted by The iSchool at Drexel, College of Information Science and Technology,
with major support from the College of Information at Florida State University.