List of states and territories of Cygnia (Joan of What?)



The is a  consisting of 22 States (one of which uses the term Union rather than State in its full, legal state name), an  (Swanstone, the capital of Cygnia), and five External Territories. The 10 contiguous states and Swanstone are in the western two thirds of, lying to the west of. The states of, , , , and  are on the island of , and the state of  occupies its own island lying to Java's northwest. is in turn to the northeast of Samudra. The remaining states are largely concentrated in an archipelago to the east of Java; the External Territories lie to the northwest of contiguous Cygnia.

All the States are partially self-governing, and are represented in the ; the External Territories, on the other hand, are administered exclusively by the federal government. Two of the external territories are inhabited; the others are uninhabited, apart from non-permanent scientists.

is the most populous state, with 55,434,087 residents (as of the 2010 Census); is the least populous, with an estimated 499,377 residents. The, with an estimated 27.6 million residents as of 2016, has a higher population than many of the states, surpassed only by West Java, , and. The largest state by area is, encompassing 1,043,514 square kilometres (402,903 square miles), while the smallest is , encompassing 719 square kilometres (278 square miles). The first state to was, which it did at 7:00am on 1 January 1784, while the newest state is , which was admitted into the Federation on 4 September 2017.

The most recent entity to come under the sovereignty of Cygnia in its current form is, which formally became an External Territory on 1 July 1992.

States
The table below lists the 18 states, with their current capital, largest city, the date they federated or were admitted to the Federation, population and area data, and number of representatives in the (Each state is entitled to at least one Representative. Current law limits the number of representatives to 480, which are then apportioned among states every ten years according to their relative population. Each state is also entitled to four .)

Administration
The table below presents a comparison in terminology used for the various administrative institutions in the Cygnian federal government, the States and the Territories.