Technically speaking, how many states are there in the USA.?

Answer 1

Trick question. Forty-six.

Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Virginia are all commonwealths, not states.

Answer 2

50 individual states, one federal district - The District of Columbia - a number of outlying territories and federally administered areas.
Forty-eight continental states plus Alaska and Hawaii.
Alaska is separated from the lower "forty-eight" by Canada.
Hawaii is a chain or cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean.

There are currently 5 territories.

The United States also holds other unorganized and/or uninhabited territories, islands and atolls.

Since 1998 US Navy has held an extensive naval base at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba.

There are also nations which are associated states under the Compact of Free Association. The Federated States of Micronesia, The Marshall Islands and Palau.

See Commonwealth
Thus commonwealth originally meant a state governed for the common good as opposed to an authoritarian state...

Four states in the United States officially designate themselves "commonwealths": Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

"Commonwealth" is also used in the U.S. to describe the political relationship between the United States and the overseas unincorporated territories of Puerto Rico and of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Answer 3

50

Answer 4

There are 50 states.

Answer 5

There are 50 states in the US, technically or otherwise!

Answer 6

Technically speaking, that would be 50.

Answer 7

The area now occupied by the contiguous 48 states was originally inhabited by numerous Native American peoples and was colonized beginning in the 16th century by Spain, France, the Netherlands, and England. apart from these includes the noncontiguous states of Alaska and Hawaii and various island territories in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean

Answer 8

Theres nothing technical about it... there's 50 states and a few territories.

Answer 9

There are 48 contiguous states, 50 total states, and some foreign territories.

Answer 10

Actually Watchman, Texas is the only state that has ever been a country.

And to answer the question, there are 50 states.

Answer 11

Technically, 50.
Non-technically, still 50.
(What on earth do you mean?)