{{Infobox U.S. state
|Fullname        = 
|Name            = 
|Flag            = 
|FlagAlt         = 
|Seal            = 
|SealAlt         = 
|Nickname        = 
|Motto           = OPTIONAL.
|StateAnthem     = OPTIONAL.
|Demonym         = OPTIONAL. What's this? A citizen of Mississippi would be a Mississippian. See [[نام اهلیت]].
|OfficialLang    = OPTIONAL.
|Languages       = OPTIONAL.
|Map             = 
|MapAlt          = 
|Capital         = 
|LargestCity     = Set this to "capital" if the capital and the largest city are the same.
|LargestMetro    = OPTIONAL.
|AreaRank        = 
|TotalAreaUS     = 
|TotalArea       = 
|WidthUS         = 
|Width           = 
|LengthUS        = 
|Length          = 
|PCWater         = 
|Latitude        = 
|Longitude       = 
|2000Pop         = 
|2000DensityUS   = 
|2000Density     = 
|MedianHouseholdIncome = OPTIONAL.
|DensityRank     = 
|HighestPoint    = 
|HighestElevUS   = 
|HighestElev     = 
|MeanElevUS      = 
|MeanElev        = 
|LowestElevUS    = 
|LowestElev      = 
|AdmittanceDate  = 
|AdmittanceOrder = 
|Governor        = 
|Lieutenant Governor =
|Lieutenant Governor_alt = OPTIONAL. For states w/o Lieutenant Governor, the title of the next in line of succession
|Legislature     = 
|Upperhouse      = 
|Lowerhouse      = 
|Senators        = 
|Representative  = OPTIONAL.
|TimeZone        = 
|TZDesc          = OPTIONAL.
|TZ1Where        = OPTIONAL.
|TimeZone2       = OPTIONAL.
|TZ2Where        = OPTIONAL.
|Website         = OPTIONAL. Do NOT include http:// or trailing / Ex: www.anysite.com NOT http://www.anysite.com/
|Footnotes       = OPTIONAL.
}}

If TimeZone2 is specified, the time zone section will consist of three rows:

Time zones TZDesc
-TZ1Where TimeZone
-TZ2Where TimeZone2

Otherwise, only TimeZone should be specified (the other related parameters are ignored) and one row is rendered:

Time zones TimeZone

The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the place-name and location parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue article across Wikipedia, or via a browser tool operated by a person, to (for example) add the subject to an address book. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

If the place or venue has an "established", "founded", "opened" or similar date, specific to the day, use {{Start date}} (unless the date is before 1583 CE); if it has a URL, use {{URL}}.

hCard uses HTML classes including:

  • adr
  • category
  • country-name
  • extended-address
  • fn
  • label
  • locality
  • nickname
  • note
  • org
  • street-address
  • url
  • vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes; nor collapse nested elements which use them.