US postal abbreviations

The [United States Postal Service]? uses two-letter abbreviations for each state and territory of the US, as specified below.

• AL: Alabama
• AK: Alaska
• AS: American Samoa
• AZ: Arizona
• AR: Arkansas
• CA: California
• CO: Colorado
• CT: Connecticut
• DE: Delaware
• DC: District of Columbia
• FM: Federated States of Micronesia
• FL: Florida
• GA: Georgia
• GU: Guam
• HI: Hawaii
• ID: Idaho
• IL: Illinois
• IN: Indiana
• IA: Iowa
• KS: Kansas
• KY: Kentucky
• LA: Louisiana
• ME: Maine
• MH: Marshall Islands
• MD: Maryland
• MA: Massachusetts
• MI: Michigan
• MN: Minnesota
• MS: Mississippi
• MO: Missouri
• MT: Montana
• NE: Nebraska
• NV: Nevada
• NH: New Hampshire
• NJ: New Jersey
• NM: New Mexico
• NY: New York
• NC: North Carolina
• ND: North Dakota
• MP: Northern Mariana Islands
• OH: Ohio
• OK: Oklahoma
• OR: Oregon
• PW: Palau
• PA: Pennsylvania
• PR: Puerto Rico
• RI: Rhode Island
• SC: South Carolina
• SD: South Dakota
• TN: Tennessee
• TX: Texas
• UT: Utah
• VT: Vermont
• VI: U.S. Virgin Islands
• VA: Virginia
• WA: Washington
• WV: West Virginia
• WI: Wisconsin
• WY: Wyoming

Other abbreviations used by the US postal service:

The USPS recommends address be written in block capital letters, probably for better processing by their OCR machinery. They prefer some standard abbreviations for common terms in street addresses.

• LN = lane
• ST = street
• BLVD = boulevard
• RD = road
• CIR = circle
• CT = court
• STE = suite
• NO = number
• N = north
• W = west
• S = south
• E = east
• CTR = center