Meeting the 50 States - part 2

KENTUCKY (population: 4,395,295).................. Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath Fort Knox .

LOUISIANA (population: 4,625,470)................ Has parishes instead of counties because they were originally Spanish church units.

MAINE (population: 1,328,302)............................ It's so big, it covers as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.

MARYLAND (population: 5,928,814)................... The Ouija board was created in Baltimore in 1892.

MASSACHUSETTS (population: 6,692,824).....The Fig Newton is named after Newton, Massachusetts .

The outline of Massachusetts with the respective counties

MICHIGAN (population: 9,895,622)................... Fremont, home to Gerber, is the baby food capital of the world.

MINNESOTA (population: 5,420,380)................ Bloomington 's Mall of America is so big, that if you spent 10 min. in each store, you'd be there nearly four days.

MISSISSIPPI (population: 2,991,207)...............President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear here ... that's how the teddy bear got its name.

MISSOURI (population: 6,044,171)....................Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone.

MONTANA (population: 1,015,165).................... A sapphire from Montana is in the Crown Jewels of England.

NEBRASKA (population: 1,868,516)......................More triplets are born here than in any other state.

The Manhattan skyline in New York City

NEVADA (population: 2,790,136).......has more casinos than any other state.

NEW HAMPSHIRE (population: 1,323,459).........Birthplace of Tupperware, invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper.

NEW JERSEY (population: 8,899,339)................Has the most shopping malls in one area in the world.

NEW MEXICO (population: 2,085,287)................ Smokey the Bear was rescued from a 1950 forest fire here.

NEW YORK (population: 19,651,127).........................Is home to the nation's oldest cattle ranch, started in 1747 in Montauk.