US state abbreviations in JSON

state-abbreviations.json

{
"al": { "full": "alabama", "other": ["ala"] },
"ak": { "full": "alaska", "other": ["alas"] },
"az": { "full": "arizona", "other": ["ariz"] },
"ar": { "full": "arkansas", "other": ["ark"] },
"ca": { "full": "california", "other": ["calif", "cal"] },
"co": { "full": "colorado", "other": ["colo", "col"] },
"ct": { "full": "connecticut", "other": ["conn"] },
"de": { "full": "delaware", "other": ["del"] },
"dc": { "full": "district of columbia", "other": ["washington dc", "wash dc"] },
"fl": { "full": "florida", "other": ["fla", "flor"] },
"ga": { "full": "georgia", "other": [] },
"hi": { "full": "hawaii", "other": ["hawaii"] },
"id": { "full": "idaho", "other": ["ida"] },
"il": { "full": "illinois", "other": ["ill", "ills"] },
"in": { "full": "indiana", "other": ["ind"] },
"ia": { "full": "iowa", "other": ["ioa"] },
"ks": { "full": "kansas", "other": ["kans", "kan", "ka"] },
"ky": { "full": "kentucky", "other": ["ken", "kent"] },
"la": { "full": "louisiana", "other": [] },
"me": { "full": "maine", "other": [] },
"md": { "full": "maryland", "other": [] },
"ma": { "full": "massachusetts", "other": ["mass"] },
"mi": { "full": "michigan", "other": ["mich"] },
"mn": { "full": "minnesota", "other": ["minn"] },
"ms": { "full": "mississippi", "other": ["miss"] },
"mo": { "full": "missouri", "other": [] },
"mt": { "full": "montana", "other": ["mont"] },
"ne": { "full": "nebraska", "other": ["nebr", "neb"] },
"nv": { "full": "nevada", "other": ["nev"] },
"nh": { "full": "new hampshire", "other": [] },
"nj": { "full": "new jersey", "other": [] },
"nm": { "full": "new mexico", "other": ["n mex", "new m"] },
"ny": { "full": "new york", "other": ["n york"] },
"nc": { "full": "north carolina", "other": ["n carolina", "n car"] },
"nd": { "full": "north dakota", "other": ["n dakota", "n dak", "nodak", "no dak"] },
"oh": { "full": "ohio", "other": ["o"] },
"ok": { "full": "oklahoma", "other": ["okla"] },
"or": { "full": "oregon", "other": ["oreg", "ore"] },
"pa": { "full": "pennsylvania", "other": ["penn", "penna"] },
"ri": { "full": "rhode island", "other": ["ri pp", "r isl"] },
"sc": { "full": "south carolina", "other": ["s carolina", "s car"] },
"sd": { "full": "south dakota", "other": ["s dakota", "s dak", "sodak", "so dak"] },
"tn": { "full": "tennessee", "other": ["tenn"] },
"tx": { "full": "texas", "other": ["tex"] },
"ut": { "full": "utah", "other": [] },
"vt": { "full": "vermont", "other": [] },
"va": { "full": "virginia", "other": ["virg"] },
"wa": { "full": "washington", "other": ["wash", "wn"] },
"wv": { "full": "west virginia", "other": ["w virginia", "w va", "wva", "w virg"] },
"wi": { "full": "wisconsin", "other": ["wis", "wisc"] },
"wy": { "full": "wyoming", "other": ["wyo"] }
}

Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_abbreviations.

I lowercased everything and stripped punctuation, because presumably you want to normalize things before comparing them. But this might cause weirdness in some situations, such as with Illinois, where both obsolete abbreviations are English words.