9/30/2012

Ranking Of States By Population From One To Fifty

The United States of America (commonly called the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait.

The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean. At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 314 million people, the United States is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area, and the third-largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries.



Population By State




United States

314,490,571


Rank

State

Population

Percent of U.S.


1

California

37,691,912

11.99%


2

Texas

25,674,681

8.16%


3

New York

19,465,197

6.19%


4

Florida

19,057,542

6.06%


5

Illinois

12,869,257

4.09%


6

Pennsylvania

12,742,886

4.05%


7

Ohio

11,544,951

3.67%


8

Michigan

9,876,187

3.14%


9

Georgia

9,815,210

3.12%


10

North Carolina

9,656,401

3.07%


11

New Jersey

8,821,155

2.80%


12

Virginia

8,096,604

2.57%


13

Washington

6,830,038

2.17%


14

Massachusetts

6,587,536

2.09%


15

Indiana

6,516,922

2.07%


16

Arizona

6,482,505

2.06%


17

Tennessee

6,403,353

2.04%


18

Missouri

6,010,688

1.91%


19

Maryland

5,828,289

1.85%


20

Wisconsin

5,711,767

1.82%


21

Minnesota

5,344,861

1.70%


22

Colorado

5,116,769

1.63%


23

Alabama

4,802,740

1.53%


24

South Carolina

4,679,230

1.49%


25

Louisiana

4,574,836

1.45%


26

Kentucky

4,369,356

1.39%


27

Oregon

3,871,859

1.23%


28

Oklahoma

3,791,508

1.21%


29

Connecticut

3,580,709

1.14%


30

Iowa

3,062,309

0.97%


31

Mississippi

2,978,512

0.95%


32

Arkansas

2,937,979

0.93%


33

Kansas

2,871,238

0.91%


34

Utah

2,817,222

0.90%


35

Nevada

2,723,322

0.87%


36

New Mexico

2,082,224

0.66%


37

West Virginia

1,855,364

0.59%


38

Nebraska

1,842,641

0.59%


39

Idaho

1,584,985

0.50%


40

Hawaii

1,374,810

0.44%


41

Maine

1,328,188

0.42%


42

New Hampshire

1,318,194

0.42%


43

Rhode Island

1,051,302

0.33%


44

Montana

998,199

0.32%


45

Delaware

907,135

0.29%


46

South Dakota

824,082

0.26%


47

Alaska

722,718

0.23%


48

North Dakota

683,932

0.22%


49

Vermont

626,431

0.20%


50

Wyoming

568,158

0.18%


 


**Source: Wikipedia.org