1. Pacific Coast WashingtonOregon California AlaskaHawaii

2. Motto : Al-Ki (Native American word meaning by and by) Nickname : Evergreen State, Chinook state Origin of Name : In honor of George Washington Capital : Olympia Population : 5,894,121 Coast Rhododendron Seattle Pike Place Market - Seattle First Starbuck's - Seattle Mt. Rainier Space Needle - Seattle Coastal Rainforest

3. Motto : Alis volat Propriis ( She flies with her own wings) Nickname : Beaver state Origin of Name : Unknown. However, it is generally accepted that the name, first used by Jonathan Carver in 1778, was taken from the writings of Maj. Robert Rogers, an English army officer Capital Salem Population : 3,421,399 Oregon Grape Willamette Valley Beaver Mt. Hood The Dalles on the Columbia River Portland Whitewater Rafting

4. Motto : Eureka (I Have Found It) Nicknames : The Golden state, The Land of Fruits and Nuts Poppy Death Valley Golden Gate Bridge – San Francisco Capital Sacramento Population 33,871,648 Haight-Ashbury San Francisco

5. Winchester Mystery Mansion – San Jose California Redwoods Lake Tahoe, CA Origin of Name : From the name of a fictional earthly paradise in a book called Las Sergas de Esplanidian, written by Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo around 1500

6. Motto : North to the Future Nicknames : The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Origin of Name : From the Aleut word meaning "great land," or "that which the sea breaks against" Forget-me-not Totem Poles Kodiak Bear Capital Juneau Population 626,932 Mt. McKinley – The Highest point in US

7. Motto : Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono (The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness) Nickname : Aloha state Origin of Name The islands may have been named by Hawaii Loa, their traditional discoverer. They may also have been named after Hawaii or Hawaiki, the traditional home of the Polynesians Yellow Hibiscus Capital Honolulu Population 1,211,537 Hula Dancers Waikiki Beach and Diamondhead - Honolulu Waipio Valley – Big Island

8. USS Arizona Memorial - Pearl Harbor Iolani Palace (Completed in 1882, was the residence of Queen Liliuokalani until the monarchy was deposed in 1893) King Kamehameha the Great, who united all the Hawai’ian Islands