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List of U.S. state nicknames

This is a list of U.S. state nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for individual states of the United States. Current official state nicknames are highlighted in bold.

State Nickname(s)

(No official Nickname)[1]
  • Cotton State[2]
  • Heart of Dixie[3][2]
  • Yellowhammer State[2]
  • Stars Fell on Alabama[2] (currently used on general issue license plates)
  • Great Land
  • Last Frontier
  • Apache State
  • Copper State
  • Grand Canyon State
  • Bear State
  • Land of Opportunity (former official nickname)
  • Natural State
  • Wonder State
  • Razorback State
  • What a State!
  • El Dorado State
  • Golden State[4]
  • Golden West
  • Grape State
  • Land of Milk and Honey
  • The Bear State (or Republic)
  • Entertainment State
  • Land of the Fires
  • Movie State
  • People's Republic of California
  • Buffalo Plains State[5] - disused
  • Centennial State[6]
  • Colorful Colorado[6]
  • Columbine State[7]
  • Highest State[5]
  • Lead State[5] - disused
  • Mother of Rivers[8]
  • Rocky Mountain Empire[9]
  • Rocky Mountain State[10] - disused
  • Silver State[5] - disused
  • Diamond State
  • First State
  • Small Wonder
  • Blue Hen State or the Blue Hen's Chicken[12]
  • The Federal City
  • The District
  • Peninsula State or Peninsular State[12]
  • Hurricane State
  • Tropical State
  • God's Waiting Room
  • Everglades State
  • Citrus State
  • Flower State
  • Manatee State
  • Orange State
  • Sunshine State
  • Peach State[13]
  • Cracker State - Along with Florida, Georgia has been called "The Cracker State" in earlier times, perhaps a derogatory term that referred to immigrants, called "Crackers," from the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. [13] See also Atlanta Crackers: Origin of the name
  • Empire State of the South - Refers to economic leadership[13]
  • Yankee-land of the South: Similarly to the above nickname, "Yankee-land of the South" speaks to industrial and economic development in the south. This nickname may be used in a derogatory sense.[13]
  • Goober State - Refers to peanuts, the official state crop[13]
  • Aloha State
  • Pineapple State
  • Rainbow State
  • Gem State
  • Spud State [14]
[15]
  • Land of Lincoln
  • Prairie State
  • The Corn State
  • The Sucker State (for a type of fish)
  • Garden of the West
  • Crossroads of America
  • Hoosier State[16]
  • Hospitality State
  • Tall Corn State
  • Hawkeye State[17]
  • Land of the Rolling Prairie
  • Cyclone State
  • Bluegrass State
  • The Corn-crackers (reported in 1881)[12]
  • Bayou State
  • Child of the Mississippi
  • Creole State
  • Pelican State
  • Sportsman's Paradise
  • Sugar State
  • The Border State (reported in 1881)[12]
  • Down East
  • Pine Tree State
  • Vacationland
  • Cockade State
  • Free State
  • Monumental State
  • Old Line State
  • Terrapin State
  • Crab State
  • Bay State[12]
  • The Commonwealth
  • Colony State
  • Old Colony
  • Taxachusetts
  • The Great Lakes State
  • Mitten State
  • Winter Water Wonderland
  • Wolverine State[12]
  • The Birthplace of Automotives
  • Gopher State
  • Land of 10,000 Lakes
  • Land of Lakes
  • Land of Sky-Blue Waters
  • North Star State
  • Hospitality State
  • Magnolia State
  • Bullion State
  • Cave State
  • Gateway State
  • Bellwether State
  • Lead State
  • Ozark State
  • Puke State (reported in 1881)[12]
  • Show Me State
  • Big Sky Country
  • The Last Best Place
  • Treasure State
  • Beef State
  • Cornhusker State
  • Tree Planter's State
  • Battle Born State
  • Sagebrush State
  • Silver State
  • Granite State[18]
  • Mother of Rivers[18]
  • White Mountain State[18]
  • Garden State
  • The Crossroads of the Revolution
  • The Tomato State
  • First State Lite (Because the first light bulb was invented in Menlo Park)
  • Armpit of America (colloquial/derogatory)
  • The Soprano State (political/derogatory)
  • Cactus State[19]
  • The Colorful State
  • The Land of Enchantment[19]
  • Land of Sunshine (predates "The Land of Enchantment"; this earlier nickname highlighted the large percentage of sunshine received statewide)[19]
  • New Andalusia[19]
  • The Outer Space State
  • The Spanish State
  • The Empire State
  • Flickertail State
  • Peace Garden State
  • Rough Rider State
  • Sioux State
  • Land of the Red Man
  • Sooner State
  • Beaver State
  • Union State
  • Pacific Wonderland[25]
  • Sunset State
  • Liberty Bell State
  • Independence State
  • Keystone State[12]
  • Quaker State
  • Little Rhody[12]
  • Ocean State
  • Plantation State
  • Palmetto State[12]
  • Sandlapper State, Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places
  • Iodine Products State - disused[26]
  • Artesian State[27]
  • Blizzard State[27]
  • Coyote State[27]
  • Land of Infinite Variety
  • Mount Rushmore State (officially adopted in 1980 in place of the former nickname of Sunshine State)[27]
  • Sunshine State[27]
  • Green Mountain State[12]
  • Mother of Presidents
  • The Old Dominion[12]
  • Evergreen State[31]
  • Mountain State
  • Panhandle State
  • America's Dairyland
  • America's Bread Basket
  • Badger State[12]
  • Cowboy State
  • Equality State
  • Park State

See also

References

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