How to get USA states programatically?

Question

I am developing an iphone application in objective c. I have to get the list of the states of USA programatically. How can I get that list?

Answer 1

You could download it from wikipedia or some other source. I don't think there's anything built-in into the iPhone SDK.

Answer 2

I would hard-code the list in the source code. It's likely not to change during the lifetime of the application.