Hawaii

"We're in Hawaii, the United States' only island state. Now lies in ruins because the North Korean ICBMs did it of course. I can't believe this could've happened by then."

--Su Ji-Hoon, The Rapture

Hawaii (English: /həˈwaɪ.i, -ji, -ʔi/ hə-WY-(y)ee; Hawaiian: Hawaiʻi [həˈvɐjʔi]) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States of America, having received statehood on August 21, 1959. Hawaii is the only US state located in Oceania and the only one composed entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is the only US state located outside North America.