---
language:
- en
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
size_categories:
- n<1K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- text-generation
pretty_name: US States & Territories (Wikipedia)
tags:
- geography
- wikipedia
- usa
- plain-text
- states
- territories
---

# Dataset Card for US States & Territories (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia plain-text extracts for 56 US places: the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five inhabited territories.

## Dataset Details

- **Language:** English
- **License:** [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (Wikipedia text)
- **Source:** English Wikipedia (plain-text extracts)
- **Rows:** 56

## Dataset Description

One row per place with `text` (full English Wikipedia plain-text extract) and `slug` (filesystem-safe place identifier). Useful for language modeling, retrieval, and geography-focused NLP over US state and territory encyclopedia text.

## Dataset Structure

One row per place. Single split: `train`.

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `text` | string | Full Wikipedia plain-text extract for the place |
| `slug` | string | Filesystem-safe place identifier |


### Example

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("codycollier/geo-us-states")
row = ds["train"][0]
print(row["slug"], len(row["text"]))
```

## Licensing Information

Text content originates from Wikipedia and remains under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. See [Wikipedia:Copyrights](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights).