How to get USA states programmatically? - iphone

Question

I am developing an iphone application in Objective-C.
I have to get the list of the states of USA programmatically. How can I get that list?

Answer 1

I would hard-code the list in the source code. It's likely not to change during the lifetime of the application.

Answer 2

You could download it from wikipedia or some other source. I don't think there's anything built-in into the iPhone SDK.

Answer 3

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