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How many states are there in the USA?

Formally - forty-six.

Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts are all officially Commonwealths.

The status does not give them any special constitutional powers. They simply chose that word for themselves at the end of the War of Independence (1775-1783), making it clear that they were no longer colonies answerable to the English crown, but were becoming states governed "by the common consent of the people."

Virginia (named after the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I (Virgin - virgin, virgin (English).)) was one of the first thirteen American states (hence the thirteen red stripes on the US state flag) and was the first to proclaim itself the Commonwealth in 1776.

Pennsylvania and Massachusetts were not long in coming, and Kentucky, originally a county within Virginia, declared itself a Commonwealth in 1792.

Interestingly, there are two more Commonwealths similar to the American ones outside the borders of the United States. In July 1952, the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico adopted its own constitution, declaring itself the Commonwealth of the United States. The same thing was done in 1975 by the Northern Mariana Islands, a state in the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Neither of these two states is part of the United States.

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