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United States dictionary

The United States of America dictionary, consists of the country's states, federal district, inhabited territories and their information.

Structure

Each key in the UNITED_STATES constant has 7 items: 

UNITED_STATES = {
    "Alabama": {
        "capital": "Montgomery",
        "date of ratification/establishment/acquisition": "1819.12.14",
        "landlocked": False,
        "area": 135767.0,
        "population": 5024279,
        "Representatives": 7,
        "ISO 3166-2:US": "US-AL",
    },
    # ...
}

  • "capital": The capital of the state or inhabited territory, type: str, None (for the federal district)

  • "date of ratification/establishment/acquisition": Date (format: YYYY.MM.DD) of ratification of the state, establishment of the federal district or acquisition of inhabited territory, type: str

  • "landlocked": Whether the state, federal district or inhabited territory is landlocked or not, type: bool

  • "area": Area (in square kilometre) of the state, federal district or inhabited territory, type: float

  • "population": Population of the state, federal district or inhabited territory, type: int

  • "Representatives": Number of Representatives of the state, federal district or inhabited territory, type: int

  • "ISO 3166-2:US": Subdivision codes of ISO 3166-2's entry for the United States, type: str

Usage example

from countries_dictionary import UNITED_STATES

# Prints the capital of a state
print(UNITED_STATES["Ohio"]["capital"])

# Compares the numbers of Representatives of two states
print(UNITED_STATES["California"]["Representatives"] > UNITED_STATES["Texas"]["Representatives"])
print(UNITED_STATES["California"]["Representatives"] == UNITED_STATES["Texas"]["Representatives"])
print(UNITED_STATES["California"]["Representatives"] < UNITED_STATES["Texas"]["Representatives"])

# Creates the list of all states, federal district and inhabited territories
list_of_states = list(UNITED_STATES.keys())
print(list_of_states)