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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
While traversing America’s highways, it’s interesting to watch the signs when you leave one U.S. state and enter another. Some states offer billboards and welcome stations, making a huge production out of the fact that you’re now within their sacred borders. Others display only a tiny “state line” sign that you might miss if you’re not paying attention. Here are ten U.S. state pairs that may or may not lie next to one another. Can you identify whether or not these states share a common border? It’s tougher than you think; good luck!
Take the Quiz: Borderlands
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That was a great quiz! You were right about the “tougher than you think” part, too. I got 9/10, and I was so sure about the one I got wrong!
posted by JD on 6-17-2009 at 11:49 am
100%!
posted by BassMan on 6-17-2009 at 12:40 pm
Geography people- I have been trying to figure out for years, the origins and reasons for that little notch into canada cut through a lake from Minnesota. I think it’s call the northwest notch or something like that, but I can never find how it came to be or why. If you look at a map you will see this little notch randomly sticking into canada along an otherwise smooth border. It can’t be more than a few square miles.
Anybody know anything on this?
posted by James on 6-17-2009 at 1:07 pm
It’s called the Northwest Angle and was recently written about by a Car & Driver editor, albeit briefly. Here’s the link:
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/columns/c_d_staff/john_phillips/john_phillips_and_the_bears_get_no_cookies_column
posted by Soup on 6-17-2009 at 5:56 pm
Thanks, JD; glad you enjoyed it!
posted by Sandy Wood on 6-17-2009 at 7:05 pm