State (disambiguation)

The term state may refer to:

• a general condition, as in "state of being"
• a sovereign political entity, see
  • state
  • unitary state
  • nation state

• a non-sovereign political entity, see state (non-sovereign).
  • in Australia, see Australian States and Territories.
  • in Austria (Bundesland), see States of Austria.
  • in Brazil, see States of Brazil.
  • in Germany (Bundesland), see States of Germany.
  • in India, see States and territories of India .
  • in Mexico, see States of Mexico.
  • in the United States of America, see U.S. state.

• colloquially, the US State Department.
• colloquially, Jersey people and Guernsey people call the States of Jersey/States of Guernsey , the States
• a term in computer science and computability theory, see state (computer science).
• a term in physics, particularly in thermodynamics, statistical physics, and dynamical systems and chaos theory, see state (physics).
• a term in functional analysis, see state (functional analysis).
• a term in neuro-linguistic programming, see state (neuro-linguistic programming) .

• a sketch comedy show on MTV, see The State (TV series)