Washington,D.C. is the country's capital but it is a city,not a state, so it does not have its own star.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

The group's recent "State of the Air" report said Pittsburgh has the worst short-term fine particle pollution in the country.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

If you visit the western mountain and plains state of Montana you will know why it is known as Big Sky Country.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

That's not what we have. It's a state-driven measure. High standards,challenging work for young people across the country.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

So could letting another country use a state's territory for aggressive acts against a third state.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

And directly across the country, on the Pacific Coast, is the state of Washington.

VOA: special.2011.01.09

That makes it the second least-populated state in the country after Wyoming.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

Last week, state champions from around the country met in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

And he said it was right for the United States to pay the debts of Texas, because that state no longer could collect taxes on trade as an independent country.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

The massacre - blamed on the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles - has left the country in a state of shock.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The State Department's Antiterrorism Assistance program also provided training and equipment to the country's Maritime Police Unit.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

They came by the thousands, in a long time." from across state lines and across the country, in campers,recreational vehicles and by motorcycle.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

He will go to the central state of Iowa on Thursday, to try to convince a deeply divided country of the plan's merits.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

U.S.State Department Spokesman P.J.Crowley says Amiri met with authorities while in this country, but wouldn't say if the Iranian gave up any secrets.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

He says the government has turned this country into a police state and this is illegal.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

The State Council said the country will reduce its "carbon intensity" by 40 to 45 percent by the year 2020,as compared to 2005 emission levels.

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

The visit here by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Burns came amid rising concern in India about terrorist violence spillingover again into this country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

In Udon Thani, crowds attacked and burned government buildings, and the city, like many places in the country, has been under a state of emergency.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

The former state-owned carrier once symbolized the strength of the country's post-war economic boom.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Gun activists are hoping to use that five to four ruling by the Supreme Court to challenge local and state gun control laws around the country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

It is a loss for the party. It is a loss for all of us, his colleagues, for the state of Andhra Pradesh and for the country,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

China has long been listed as a "country of particular concern" by the State Department for its record on religious freedom, as has U.S.Persian Gulf ally Saudi Arabia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Reddy - a devout Christian in a Hindu-majority country turned from medicine to politics in his home state and became one of the most influential leaders in the Congress Party.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The Tamil Tigers,long classified by the United States as a terrorist group, waged a 26-year war for an ethnic-Tamil state in the northern part of the mostly-Sinhalese country before its defeat and final surrender in May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Poland's speaker of parliament, Bronislaw Komorowski, became the country's interim head of state Saturday after Polish radio adjusted its regular programming to announce that President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria were among those killed in a plane crash in Western Russia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

But the President of the Puntland State of Somalia, Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, appealed for foreign assistance to stable areas of the country, saying this would be the best way to prevent extremist groups from expanding areas they control: "There are limited options for dealing with extremists and terrorist threats in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26