Nicknames

The "Old Dominion State" is Virginia.

"Sunshine State" was adopted as the State Nickname by the 1970 Legislature. Previously, official sanction for this nickname could be inferred from the law requiring use of Sunshine State on motor vehicle licenses. Florida is the Sunshine State because of the vast amount of sunshine it receives.

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dont think so, sounds more like Australia to me. An old word is Kakanien, coined by Robert Musil who lived 1880 - 1942

The Palmetto Tree (aka, Cabbage Palm) is the State Tree of South Carolina. In the Revolutionary War, Palmetto Tree logs were used to build a fort on Sullivan's Island in South Carolina to defend the state against British attackers. The Palmetto Tree was named the official State Tree in 1939. This is why the Palmetto Tree is on the flag, to show respect and rememberance to the tree that help defend our State.

'Óg' is a nickname used, for example 'Seán Óg'. It means 'young' and is often used in the way 'Junior' is in the USA as in William Smith Junior.

There are two: "Tinsel Town", or "Hollyweird".

Blighty... Ok, well I don't know about that one, but a friend of mine that moved here to the States around 5th grade used to refer to England, or rather the entire UK as the "Little Continent." Now, before anyone cracks wise, we're all well aware that the UK isn't a continent. The UK, is in fact part of the European continent, and European union for that matter. Land Masses do not really "break up" They are all just high and low points on the earths crust. The low points were filled in with water, and voila. Here we have the beautiful place that is the UK, and every other country in the world.
Australians call it The Old Dart

Pig's Eye- it was named after Pierre Parrant, who was blind in one eye, so they gave him the nickname of Pig's Eye.

A cowboy on a bucking horse was adopted officially as a symbol of the state, which led to some calling Wyoming The Cowboy State. Wyoming license plates have included the image of a bucking horse and rider since 1936.

Delaware, New Jersey, and Connecticut are three original colonies which are now states.

It used to be called Edo. Any Japanese person would know that Edo means the city now referred to as Tokyo.

Original Answer(Just so you guys can see):

Middle Kingdom

My answer:

Though many people may think that china's nickname is middle kingdom, I would strongly disagree. Though the name literally translates to middle kingdom (Zhong（中） -> Middle, Guo（国）-> Kingdom, for a total of Zhong Guo（中国）, which is China), Nobody nicknames china like that. They call what is literally called middle kingdom in chinese, china. However, there are a few nicknames for china that stand for their national pride. They are as such: 华夏 (pronounced Hua Xia) and 神州 (Pronounced Sheng Zhou) which can mean divine, or if broken up Godly States (or provinces since it is china). Feel free to add more nicknames!!

I hope that I have not confuse any of you guys :)

-Jason (I am Chinese by the way!)

"The First State" became the official State nickname on May 23, 2002. Delaware has several nicknames, they include Diamond State, Small Wonder, Blue Hen State, Peach State, Land of Tax-Free Shopping, and New Sweden.

Alabama has been known as the "Yellowhammer State" since the Civil War. The yellowhammer nickname was applied to the Confederate soldiers from Alabama when a company of young cavalry soldiers from Huntsville, under the command of Rev. D.C. Kelly, arrived at Hopkinsville, KY, where Gen. Forrest's troops were stationed. The officers and men of the Huntsville company wore fine, new uniforms, whereas the soldiers who had long been on the battlefields were dressed in faded, worn uniforms. On the sleeves, collars and coattails of the new calvary troop were bits of brilliant yellow cloth. As the company rode past Company A , Will Arnett cried out in greeting "Yellowhammer, Yellowhammer, flicker, flicker!" The greeting brought a roar of laughter from the men and from that moment the Huntsville soldiers were spoken of as the "yellowhammer company." The term quickly spread throughout the Confederate Army and all Alabama troops were referred to unofficially as the "Yellowhammers." It is however an Unofficial Nickname. Alabama is the only US State that has never adapted an official nickname and is best known as the Heart of Dixie. It shoule also be noted that the Yellow shafted Flicker (Colaptes auratus) or Yellowhammer was named the State's Official Bird in 1933.

The "BreadBasket". It got this nickname because of it's fertile soil.

South Dakota's official nickname is "The Mount Rushmore State" because Mount Rushmore National Memorial is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. In 1980, the SD State Legislature voted to change the state nickname from "The Sunshine State" to "The Mount Rushmore State".

The Ocean State.

The reason why the state New York got it's nickname for the Big Apple is because the a certain New York band made a song called The Big Apple and also one of the reasons why is because they have so many thing made from apples and they have a lot of apples. Another nickname is the Empire State Building. It got that nickname because a huge building called the Empire State Building. The Empire State building is 611 feet tall and 79,288 square miles.

Some called it Seward's Folly and others called it Johnson's icebox thinking that it was useless and would never be worth anything.

Viegues, Culebra, Mona and the main island of Puerto Rico.

The Alabama River was named by early European explorers after the Indian tribe that lived in the territory and first appeared in 1540 spelled as "Alibamu", "Alibamo" and even "Limamu" in the journals of the Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto (c.1500-1542). The origin of the name Alabama is thought to come from a combination of two Choctaw words; Alba and Amo. In Choctaw, "Alba" means vegetation, herbs, plants and "Amo" means gatherer or picker. "Vegetation gatherers" would be an apt description for the Alabama Indians who cleared much land for agricultural purposes.

Idaho's official nickname is the "Gem State" because of the abundance of natural resources and scenic areas in Idaho. The mountains of Idaho contain veins of gold, silver, lead, zinc, cobalt, copper, and many other rare minerals.

ANSWER:The Nick-name of South Carolina is "The Palmetto State".

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