How can I seed data in Laravel from external data source?

So I am trying to seed data into my dB from an external api and not the default faker using the model factory in Laravel and I am stuck. Below is my code:

$factory->define(\App\Models\State::class, function(){
    $client = new Client();
    $stateQuery = $client->get('http://states-and-cities.com/api/v1/states');
    $states = $stateQuery->getBody();
    $states = json_decode($states, true);
    foreach ($states as $state) {
        return [
            'name' => $state['name'],
        ];
    }
});

So what's happening is that the return as expected is seeding only one record but I need it it to seed the whole records. How can I fix this?

via Chebli Mohamed