American States, Territories and Possessions
Ordered by Admission/Annexation
Re-Order List:  by Name  by Population  by Number of Electors  by Land Area  

Rank	State/Territory	Admitted or Annexed
1st	Delaware	12/7/1787
2nd	Pennsylvania	12/12/1787
3rd	New Jersey	12/18/1787
4th	Georgia	1/2/1788
5th	Connecticut	1/9/1788
6th	Massachusetts	2/6/1788
7th	Maryland	4/28/1788
8th	South Carolina	5/13/1788
9th	New Hampshire	6/21/1788
10th	Virginia	1/25/1788
11th	New York	7/26/1788
12th	North Carolina	11/21/1789
	District of Columbia (Federal District)	1790
13th	Rhode Island	5/29/1790
14th	Vermont	3/4/1791
15th	Kentucky	6/1/1792
16th	Tennessee	6/1/1796
17th	Ohio	3/1/1803
18th	Louisiana	4/30/1812
19th	Indiana	12/11/1816
20th	Mississippi	12/10/1817
21st	Illinois	12/3/1818
22nd	Alabama	12/14/1819
23rd	Maine	3/15/1820
24th	Missouri	8/10/1821
25th	Arkansas	6/15/1836
26th	Michigan	1/26/1837
27th	Florida	3/3/1845
28th	Texas	12/29/1845
29th	Iowa	12/28/1846
30th	Wisconsin	5/29/1848
31st	California	9/9/1850
32nd	Minnesota	5/11/1858
33rd	Oregon	2/14/1859
34th	Kansas	1/29/1861
35th	West Virginia	6/20/1863
36th	Nevada	10/31/1864
37th	Nebraska	3/1/1867
38th	Colorado	8/1/1876
39th	North Dakota	11/2/1889
40th	South Dakota	11/2/1889
41st	Montana	11/8/1889
42nd	Washington	11/11/1889
43rd	Idaho	7/3/1890
44th	Wyoming	7/10/1890
45th	Utah	1/4/1896
46th	Oklahoma	11/16/1907
47th	New Mexico	1/6/1912
48th	Arizona	2/14/1912
49th	Alaska	1/3/1959
50th	Hawaii	8/21/1959
	Navassa (Territory)	1856
	Johnston Atoll (Territory)	1858
	Midway Island (Territory)	1867
	Wake Island (Territory)	1898
	Guam (Territory)	1899
	Puerto Rico (Autonomous Commonwealth)	1899
	American Samoa (Territory)	1900
	Palmyra Atoll (Territory)	1912
	U.S. Virgin Islands (Territory)	1917
	Kingman Reef (Territory)	1922
	Baker and Howland Islands (Territory)	1935
	Jarvis Island (Territory)	1935
	Northern Marianas Islands (Autonomous Commonwealth)	1947

(All states and territories are listed, in order, but only states are ranked.)