Cleaner way

Looking to add a drop down box in a form that lists the 50 states, is there a cleaner way to do this other than
<form action="./" method="GET">

<select name="state">
<option value="AL">Alabama</option>
<option value="AK">Alaska</option>

etc,etc,etc

I'm sure there is a way to do it to eliminate 50 lines of code.

Thanks

Not really. Even if you store the actual state data (names and abbreviations) elsewhere, your final rendered page will still contain what you've described above.

Why do you feel the need to eliminate this code? What do you gain by doing so?

I don't want to eliminate it per say, I'm learning new languages and thought there might be a new way instead of this.