State

State most commonly refers to:
 * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
 * Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
 * Nation state, a state where the majority identify with a single nation (with shared culture or ethnic group)
 * Constituent state, a political subdivision of a state
 * Federated state, constituent states part of a federation
 * State of nature, a concept within philosophy that describes the way humans acted before forming societies or civilizations

State may also refer to:

Literature

 * State Magazine, a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State
 * The State (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States
 * Our State, a monthly magazine published in North Carolina and formerly called The State
 * The State (Larry Niven), a fictional future government in three novels by Larry Niven

Groups and labels

 * States Records, an American record label
 * The State (band), Australian band previously known as the Cutters

Albums

 * State (album), a 2013 album by Todd Rundgren
 * States (album), a 2013 album by the Paper Kites
 * States, a 1991 album by Klinik
 * The State (album), a 1999 album by Nickelback

Songs

 * "The State", a 2011 song by Porter Robinson from Spitfire

Television

 * The State (American TV series), 1993
 * The State (British TV series), 2017

Other

 * State Theatre (disambiguation), several theatres
 * The State (comedy troupe), an American comedy troupe

Law and politics

 * Rechtsstaat, the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in the philosophy of law and as a principle of many national constitutions
 * United States Department of State, a division of the executive branch of the United States federal government, dealing with foreign affairs; sometimes referred to as "State", for short, in American political jargon.

Federated states: Constituent states: The Estates or the States, a national assembly of the estates of the realm, an early form of legislature that was common throughout feudal Europe:
 * States of Australia
 * States of Austria
 * States of Brazil
 * States of Germany
 * States of India
 * States of Malaysia
 * States of Mexico
 * States of Micronesia
 * States of Nigeria
 * States of Somalia
 * States of South Sudan
 * States of Sudan
 * States of the United States
 * States of Venezuela
 * States of Myanmar
 * States of Palau
 * States of Alderney, the government and parliament of Alderney
 * States of Deliberation, the government and parliament of Guernsey
 * States of Jersey, including the States Assembly parliament and the Government of Jersey executive
 * States-General (disambiguation), a name for several historic and current national assemblies

Locations

 * State College, Pennsylvania, a city in the United States, often referred to informally as "State"
 * State College Area High School, or "State High"
 * State station, subway station in Boston
 * State station (CTA), in Chicago

Mathematics

 * State (controls), a term related to control theory
 * State (functional analysis), a positive linear functional on an operator algebra
 * State, in dynamical systems, is a fixed rule describing the time dependence of a point in a geometrical space

Computing

 * State (computer science), a unique configuration of information in a program or machine
 * Program state, in computer science, a snapshot of the measure of various conditions in the system
 * State (website), semantic web platform created by London, UK-based Equal Media Ltd
 * State pattern, in computer science, a behavioral design pattern

Healthcare

 * Medical state, one's current state of health, usually within a hospital
 * Mental state

Physics and chemistry

 * State, a complete description of a system in classical mechanics
 * Chemical state, the electronic, chemical and physical nature of an element
 * Quantum state, the state of a quantum mechanical system given by a vector in the underlying Hilbert space
 * Stationary state, an eigenvector of a Hamiltonian
 * State of matter, solid, liquid or gaseous phases of matter; describing the organization of matter in a phase
 * Thermodynamic state, a set of physical quantities describing variable properties of a given thermodynamic system

Printing

 * State (printmaking), distinct revisions of a work by a deliberate change to the print master

Universities

 * Ball State University, in Muncie, United States
 * Michigan State University, in East Lansing, United States
 * Michigan State Spartans, the athletic teams, commonly referred to as "State"

Other uses

 * State (theology), a degree or stage of perfection in the Christian religion
 * States (automobile), cyclecar manufactured by the States Cyclecar Co of Detroit, Michigan in 1915