Cinquante-et-unième because État is masculine and therefore un has to be too.
Regardless of the gender of the word it applies to, 51e is written cinquante-et-unième and that last component is never pronounced “un – ième” in French, i.e. *[œ̃ jɛm] or *[ɛ̃ jɛm].
There is no nasalisation so it is pronounced like “une’ième“: [ynjɛm]
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