State

State may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

The State (book) by Franz Oppenheimer, outlining the origin and structure of sovereign states and government

State (Todd Rundgren album), album by American rock musician Todd Rundgren
States (The Paper Kites album), 2013 album by the indie folk band The Paper Kites
The State (album), a 1999 music album by Nickelback

State (magazine), an Irish monthly music magazine
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

The State (1993 TV series), an American sketch-comedy series
The State (2017 TV series), a four-part drama about British Muslims joining Islamic State in Syria
The States (TV series), a documentary series on the United States

State (polity), an organized community living under a single political structure and government, sovereign or constituent
Constituent state, a type of political subdivision of a nation
- Federated state, a constituent state that is part of a federal model and shares sovereignty with the federal government
  - States and union territories of India, a constituent state of the Republic of India
  - States of Brazil, a constituent state of Brazil
  - States of Germany, a constituent state of Germany
  - States of Nigeria, a constituent state of Nigeria
  - U.S. state, a constituent state of the United States
Rechtsstaat, the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in philosophy of law and as principle of many national constitutions
Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in international law, commonly referred to as a "country"
The Estates or the States, a national assembly of the estates, a legislature
United States Department of State, a department in the Executive Branch of the United States federal government dealing with foreign affairs

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

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 (printmaking), a unique form of a print, caused by a deliberate change to a matrix
State (website), semantic web platform created by London, UK-based Equal Media Ltd
State pattern, in computer science, a behavioral design pattern

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

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