Question: What is the 8th state of the united states?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: What is the 8th state of the united states with respect to order of admission to the Union?
What is the 8th state of the united states in alphabetic order?
answer: South Carolina
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Delaware
Natural Questions answer: South Carolina (from the Wikipedia article "List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union")