Hawaii
Hawaii is a US state in the West, admitted to the Union in 1959. Its capital is Honolulu, and it goes by the nickname "the Aloha State". The USPS abbreviation is HI.
Its geographic centre sits at 20.29° N, 156.37° W, the reference point GEOPUNK measures your guesses against in the US state games.
- »Hawai'i is the only state made entirely of islands and the only one in the tropics.
- »It is still growing, as Kilauea adds land to the Big Island.
- »The Hawaiian alphabet has thirteen letters.
Its territory comes in pieces: one mainland carrying 62% of the area, plus six further landmasses large enough to show up at map scale.
Hawaii shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are California (4,023 km), Oregon (4,222 km) and Nevada (4,331 km), measured centre to centre.
Honolulu means 'sheltered harbour'. It is the most remote major city in the world, roughly 3,800 km from the nearest continent.
16,741 km² (6,464 sq mi), 47th largest of 50 states by land area.
Set against the country archive, that puts it closest in size to Eswatini.
The only US state flag containing the Union Jack, a legacy of the Kingdom of Hawai'i's relationship with Britain. The eight stripes are the eight main islands. It flew over an independent kingdom, a republic and a territory before statehood.