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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: How Hawaii Became a State
Description: The United States consists of 50 states, each of which is represented by a star on the American flag. Most of those states consist of some section of North America divided by lines on a map that separate them from other states, Canada, or Mexico.But there is one state that is not like the others. It isn’t located in North America. It doesn’t have a land border with anything, and its route to statehood was unlike any other state in the union. Learn more about the long and controversial way Hawaii became...