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'''State''' most commonly refers to:
* [[State (polity)]], a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
**[[Sovereign state]], a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
**[[Nation state]], a state where the majority identify with a single nation (with shared culture or ethnic group)
** [[Constituent state]], a political subdivision of a state
** [[Federated state]], constituent states part of a federation
*** [[U.S. state]]
* [[State of nature]], a concept within philosophy that describes the way humans acted before forming societies or civilizations

'''State''' may also refer to:

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==Arts, entertainment, and media==
===Literature===
* ''[[State Magazine]]'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State
* [[The State (newspaper)|''The State'' (newspaper)]], a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States
* ''[[Our State]]'', a monthly magazine published in North Carolina and formerly called ''The State''
* [[The State (Larry Niven)]], a fictional future government in three novels by Larry Niven

===Music===
====Groups and labels====
* [[States Records]], an American record label
* [[The State (band)]], Australian band previously known as the Cutters

====Albums====
* [[State (album)|''State'' (album)]], a 2013 album by Todd Rundgren
* [[States (album)|''States'' (album)]], a 2013 album by the Paper Kites
* ''States'', a 1991 album by [[Klinik]]
* [[The State (album)|''The State'' (album)]], a 1999 album by Nickelback

====Songs====
* "The State", a 2011 song by Porter Robinson from ''[[Spitfire (EP)|Spitfire]]''

===Television===
* [[The State (American TV series)|''The State'' (American TV series)]], 1993
* [[The State (British TV series)|''The State'' (British TV series)]], 2017
* [[State (Friday Night Lights)]], an episode of the TV series Friday Night Lights

===Other===
* [[State Theatre (disambiguation)]], several theatres
* [[The State (comedy troupe)]], an American comedy troupe

==Law and politics==
* ''[[Rechtsstaat]]'', the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in the philosophy of law and as a principle of many national constitutions
* [[United States Department of State]], a division of the executive branch of the United States federal government, dealing with foreign affairs; sometimes referred to as "State", for short, in American political jargon.

Federated states:
* [[States of Australia]]
* [[States of Austria]]
* [[States of Brazil]]
* [[States of Germany]]
* [[States of India]]
* [[States of Malaysia]]
* [[States of Mexico]]
* [[States of Micronesia]]
* [[States of Nigeria]]
* [[States of Somalia]]
* [[States of South Sudan]]
* [[States of Sudan]]
* [[States of the United States]]
* [[States of Venezuela]]
Constituent states:
* [[States of Myanmar]]
* [[States of Palau]]
[[The Estates]] or the States, a national assembly of the estates of the realm, an early form of legislature that was common throughout feudal Europe:
* [[States of Alderney]], the government and parliament of Alderney
* [[States of Deliberation]], the government and parliament of Guernsey
* States of Jersey, including the [[States Assembly]] parliament and the Government of Jersey executive
* [[States-General (disambiguation)]], a name for several historic and current national assemblies

==Locations==
* [[State College, Pennsylvania]], a city in the United States, often referred to informally as "State"
** [[State College Area High School]], or "State High"
* [[State station]], subway station in Boston
* [[State station (CTA)]], in Chicago

==Mathematics==
* [[State (controls)]], a term related to control theory
* [[State (functional analysis)]], a positive linear functional on an operator algebra
* State, in [[dynamical systems]], is a fixed rule describing the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space

==Science and technology==
===Computing===
* [[State (computer science)]], a unique configuration of information in a program or machine
** [[Program state]], in computer science, a snapshot of the measure of various conditions in the system
* [[State (website)]], semantic web platform created by London, UK-based Equal Media Ltd
* [[State pattern]], in computer science, a behavioral design pattern

=== Healthcare===
* [[Medical state]], one's current state of health, usually within a hospital
* [[Mental state]]

===Physics and chemistry===
* State, a complete description of a system in [[classical mechanics]]
* [[Chemical state]], the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element
* [[Quantum state]], the state of a quantum mechanical system given by a vector in the underlying Hilbert space
* [[Stationary state]], an eigenvector of a Hamiltonian
* [[State of matter]], solid, liquid or gaseous phases of matter; describing the organization of matter in a phase
* [[Thermodynamic state]], a set of physical quantities describing variable properties of a given thermodynamic system

===Printing===
* [[State (printmaking)]], distinct revisions of a work by a deliberate change to the print master

==Universities==
*[[Ball State University]], in Muncie, United States
*[[Georgia State University]], in Atlanta, United States
* [[Michigan State University]], in East Lansing, United States
** [[Michigan State Spartans]], the athletic teams, commonly referred to as "State"

==Other uses==
* [[State (theology)]], a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion
* [[States (automobile)]], cyclecar manufactured by the States Cyclecar Co of Detroit, Michigan in 1915

==See also==
* [[Condition (disambiguation)]]
* [[Government]], the system by which a state or community is controlled
* [[New states (disambiguation)]]
* [[Stateless (disambiguation)]]
* [[Status (disambiguation)]]
* [[The States (disambiguation)]]
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