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US State Postal Abbreviations Flashcards

The USPS Publication 28 two-letter code for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with the territory and military codes and the AP-style contrast.

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Alabama
AL
Alaska
AK
Arizona
AZ
Arkansas
AR
California
CA
Colorado
CO
Connecticut
CT
Delaware
DE
Florida
FL
Georgia
GA
Hawaii
HI
Idaho
ID
Illinois
IL
Indiana
IN
Iowa
IA
Kansas
KS
Kentucky
KY
Louisiana
LA
Maine
ME
Maryland
MD
Massachusetts
MA
Michigan
MI
Minnesota
MN
Mississippi
MS
Missouri
MO
Montana
MT
Nebraska
NE
Nevada
NV
New Hampshire
NH
New Jersey
NJ

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How many cards are in the US State Postal Abbreviations flashcard deck?
The US State Postal Abbreviations deck on PuzzlePage has 58 cards. The first 30 are free to play and free to download with no account; the remaining 28 unlock for $2.99 as a one-time payment, or with the $11.99-a-month Study Pack, which covers every deck on the site. 58 cards. The canonical list is the 59 State/Possession entries of USPS Publication 28, Appendix B. Scope is stated rather than blurred: the 50 states and the District of Columbia get one card each (51), because DC has a code a student is expected to know; the eight non-state entries (AS, FM, GU, MH, MP, PR, PW, VI) are collected on a single card and the three military codes (AA, AE, AP) on another, because they are not states and should not be counted as though they were. The remaining five cards are the Publication 28 formatting rules and the contrast with AP style. Padding this to 100 would mean inventing 42 questions the list does not contain.
What is on the us state postal abbreviations flashcards?
The USPS Publication 28 two-letter code for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, with the territory and military codes and the AP-style contrast. Cards look like this: Alabama → AL; Alaska → AK. The deck is written for grades 4–12 and filed under social studies.
Can I study us state postal abbreviations flashcards online for free?
Yes. The first 30 cards of the US State Postal Abbreviations deck play free in any web browser at puzzlepage.app, with no account, no app and no card details. It works on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop or classroom projector. Practice mode flips through the cards with nothing scored; quiz mode makes you answer each card before it flips, times the run and scores it.
Are the us state postal abbreviations flashcards accurate?
Every card in the US State Postal Abbreviations deck cites two independent published sources — two different organisations, not a standards body and a site reprinting it — and a script checks that, rather than taking the writer's word for it. A second specialist then re-verified the deck against sources of their own, without reading the citations first. That is the difference from a user-generated flashcard site, where the cards are whatever a stranger typed and nobody is accountable for them.
Can I print the us state postal abbreviations flashcards?
Yes. The US State Postal Abbreviations cards are available as a printable double-sided PDF to cut up, as well as playable in the browser. The first 30 cards are free to download; the full 58-card printable is included in the $11.99-a-month Study Pack.
How should I use the US State Postal Abbreviations deck to revise?
Start in practice mode and go through the US State Postal Abbreviations deck once without scoring, to find out which cards you already know — the deck is dealt in a different order every time you open it, so you are recalling the card rather than its position. Then switch to quiz mode, which times and scores the run and lets you re-run only the cards you missed. Use the "flip deck" control to swap which side is the question: recognising an answer is much easier than producing one, so a deck you find easy one way round is usually the harder and more useful drill the other way. Two or three short sessions across a week beat one long one, which is the whole reason flashcards work.
What grade level are the us state postal abbreviations flashcards for?
The US State Postal Abbreviations deck is written for grades 4–12. Because the cards are plain term-and-answer pairs, they are also used outside that band — by adults revising social studies, and by teachers running them as a whole-class starter on a projector.

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