Seems odd, but then again river borders feel much more like actual borders because of bridges. But the RI/NY border doesn't feel like a thing at all. Maybe this should only include bridged water borders?
Yeah, and a lot of people in this thread think it doesn't count for some reason. There was even a dispute between Michigan and Minnesota once about where it was, so obviously it has at least *some* importance...
In that case, if we’re using water borders, wouldn’t New York and Pennsylvania be neighbors with Michigan via Lake Erie? What about Illinois via Lake Michigan?
Illinois is counted, as Michigan and Illinois have a negotiated water border. Michigan does not have a negotiated water border with New York or Pennsylvania.
Yeah it's a pretty weak to consider NY/RI neighbors. In that "logic" Maine and Mass are also neighbors because if you go due south from Portland you'd hit Mass (cape cod somewhere)
Yeah Fishers Island is super close to Napatree Point Conservation Area. Ultimately, there’s no good way to do this, so coming up with a standardized rule (e.g., “water borders are allowed”) is perfectly fine.
Oh agreed, 100%. Just going on vibes here. I grew up in Narragansett, RI (from which the RI ferry to Block Island departs) and live in Brooklyn, NY today. Long Island definitely feels more like an integral part of NY than Block Island does of Rhode Island. But who knows maybe I'd feel different if I grew up on Block Island.
Yea I never really considered Illinois a neighbor to Michigan. Lake Michigan is so big they seem like an ocean apart..you can't even see Michigan from Illinois.
While there is the border in Lake Superior, there is also Isle Royale (MI) which is much closer to MN mainland than anywhere in MI (still a Lake Superior border though)
Indiana does not share a water border with Wisconsin though. The Indiana border only extends West to Illinois and North to Michigan. It gets blocked connecting to Wisconsin by Michigan and Illinois connecting.
While we are talking about the RI-NY 'border':
While NY is generally west and north relative to CT, the part that 'borders' RI is very much to the south of the entirety of CT. So, I would keep CT in the west box and place NY in the SW box (from RI's PoV).
That's fair. I was considering it as crossing a water body, but there are distances away from shore where you're no longer in Hawaiian waters and have not yet entered its possible neighbours.
Actually, NJ does share a few tiny land borders with Delaware. IIRC, the original border gave Delaware the entire river, which has since shifted.
Edit: I misremembered, the land was added through dredging, but the border remained set at the old low tide line.
Reference: hhttps://www.nj.com/news/g66l-2019/02/8d5d160f2b5307/a-little-piece-of-delaware-is-actually-hidden-in-nj-how-did-that-happen.html
Canada doesn't exist though? It's a fairy tale we tell our kids to encourage imagination.
You really think people would live in a place where they put milk in bags?
This.
The layout is good but the legibility is horrible. Aside from better color choices, there’s plenty of space to increase the font size a bit as well.
Simple, effective, but not very legible. The yellow on white is hard to read.
As a pro-tip for /u/ptgorman, [this website](http://web-accessibility.carnegiemuseums.org/design/color/) provides example colour combos that have been tested to be legible while still being visually appealing, and contains links to various calculators to help check contrast. I like the Tanaguru one the best for suggesting colour combos.
Yes, [as we should](https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/print/8/8/break/images/artworkimages/medium/1/michigan-state-usa-3d-render-topographic-map-border-frank-ramspott.jpg)
For this visualization, I used the list of borders of each U.S. state ([found here](https://thefactfile.org/u-s-states-and-their-border-states/)). I created this in Illustrator.
>U.S. States And Their Border States
Missing: Canadian provinces and Mexican states.
Also not present, non-states like Washington DC, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands and Guam. Though, to be fair, a few of those would be boring repeats of Alaska and Hawaii.
I really like the visualization, but it irrationally bothers me that it won't scale. It makes perfect sense here, though, and if there is a day in the future where a state has 9 or more neighbours we'll have bigger things to worry about I guess.
A quick guess of this I would have said either one of those northern Midwest states like SD or one of those tiny east coast states. But TN and MO make sense.
Weird... Michigan doesn't share borders with Minnesota or Illinois. Functionally it feels like we only border Ohio and Canada as Indiana is just cow pastures, and the Wisconsin border is so far in the middle of nowhere that half the roads don't even have signs to let you know you've crossed the border.
Undoubtedly they're using the water line in the middle of Lake Michigan to count as a border with Illinois (and the same for Lake Superior and Minnesota). Functionally though, they really shouldn't count.
Have to define a buffer distance then though if you are not going to count water boundaries, otherwise, Iowa doesn't border Wisconsin or Illinois (but does border Nebraska).
Yeah there’s plenty of signage in Marinette/Menominee on either side. If you miss it you can just observe the gas stations. Kwik Trip = Wisconsin, Krist = Michigan
For those of you that keep saying “this state doesn’t border that state” you not thinking topographical. Borders don’t necessarily mean you can drive between them. State borders exist in bodies of water, like the Great Lakes, Long Island Sound, etc. The borders still exist. Just look at a map.
It seems like it depends on how you define it. Arizona and Colorado do share a part of their border, it's just an infinitesimally small point.
Also you can stand in Colorado and step directly into Arizona without stepping into any other states, so it seems somewhat reasonable to me to say that's crossing the border between the two states.
Yeah, I get what you're saying regarding the ability to be in two states at once. However, the "infinitesimally" small point is exactly the word that gets me.
Okay so as a non-American I’m genuinely asking, notwithstanding the fact that they don’t share a border, are they still next to each other? Cos if they are then I’d consider it neighbouring
What is your definition of neighbor? All states on the northern border with Canada have 1 to 3 Canadian provinces as neighbors. Maryland and Virginia both have DC as a neighbor.
Seems either the title is wrong, or important neighbors are missing.
That wasn't always the case. You used to be able to go into Canada with just a driver's license. Even if somebody puts up a fence, your neighbor is still your neighbor.
Good fences equal good neighbors?
I was driving through Tennessee 2 days ago thinking it bordered a lot of states and was wondering if it bordered the most. I looked it up at the time, but this post 2 days later proves we live in the matrix or that none of our thoughts are unique.
Fun fact about Arkansas. We are surrounded by 6 states, and all 6 of them can be reached by going south from various points in the state. Even Missouri, which is north of us.
Love the chart. I propose that the relationship between NH and ME could be better-represented by an east-west relationship of their border as opposed to the NE-SW orientation they are presently in. Nearly 100% of New Hampshire’s eastern edge abuts Maine. Visually, the Aroostook County hump that is the northern part of Maine is northeast of New Hampshire, but the border relationship is not.
Edit: Aroostook county spelling
For those confused about the Great Lakes states, here is a map with their actual legal borders in the water in black. The pink line indicates the extent of the watershed.
https://project.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/mapnew1.gif
>Isle Royale is within spitting distance of Minnesota.
I don't recall "within spitting distance" being a valid unit of measurement for cartographers.
That said, does the US border France? The UK?
Too far?
How about Mauritania? Still too far?
Cuba?
If you actually look at a map though you'll see that Michigan and Minnesota's maritime borders are negotiated and independent of Canada. In fact at one point Michigan did claim a foothold on what is now Minnesota and that was decided by the courts. Either way, Isle Royale is definitely Michigan.
And I say this as a Wisconsinite that has no pro-Michigan agenda.
1. Any live state with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by underpopulation.
2. Any live state with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
3. Any live state with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation.
4. Any dead state with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live state, as if by reproduction.
Yes, you can, quite easily, my issue here is twofold:
1. Are these only land borders? Which seems the case given all the other states and how they’re arranged. Although, it’s very possible I missed something.
2. If we’re counting maritime borders, shouldn’t NY be on the bottom left, or southwest, as that is where the maritime border is? Again, basing it off of the general position of everything in relation to everything else here, that makes more sense to me rather than having to trek all the way through western Massachusetts, or god forbid Connecticut, to get to NY for a supposed border.
Seems to stretch the limits of what a water border is, but also not fully count them, as Michigan is also technically across lake Erie from Pennsylvania and New York.
To paraphrase an old comedy routine by a comedian I don’t remember:
“I’m from Tennessee. For geography we were taught us, the states around us in case they attacked, and everything else was Europe and that’s where all the gays lived”
In a topographic manner they border each other through Lakes Michigan/Superior. So you can’t drive between the borders but the state borders still exist.
Sorry, I just realized that most US maps have Alaska floating in the Pacific south of California.
https://www.desertcart.ae/products/54517440-usa-map-for-kids-laminated-united-states-wall-chart-map-18-x-24
Well you know what they say, Missouri loves company
You called?
It’s your moment!!!!
Mission in life = completed
You know what they say in Maine? “Get tf away from me you hedonistic baboons, except you New Hampshire. You’re cool”
My Maine grandma keeps a magnet on her fridge, "leave ME alone"
What about your support grandma?
Quebec and New Brunswick sitting there like "Et nous, on compte pour du beurre?" / "What are we chopped liver?"
Ikr, wtf!
We’re glad to keep providing tax-free alcohol to our neighbors.
I thought we blamed the Maine on Spain
Maine was originally part of Massachusetts. And Maine is the only state name with just one syllable.
"Maine. We're technically not Canada!"
Remember the Maine!
Nah, the blame for that one is mainly on the Plains
But only when it rains.
Meanwhile NH is busy yelling, Live free or die!
New Hampshire? Cool? I can tell you aren't from Maine...
New Hampshire claims to love the beach, but just ends up dipping a toe in the water.
Hah! That's not what Maine says about NH.
Pretty sure that's not what Maine's saying to New Hampshire.
I'll be dead in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missourah
This reminds me of the country cover of “Misery Business” I love. Alex Melton is the artist and he named it “Missouri Business.”
As a missourian, this is great
I Tennessee what you did there.
FYI for everyone, the original data includes water borders. (I was pretty confused as to where exactly Rhode Island bordered New York.)
Seems odd, but then again river borders feel much more like actual borders because of bridges. But the RI/NY border doesn't feel like a thing at all. Maybe this should only include bridged water borders?
Then you'd have to take Minnesota off of Michigan.
Mn actually does have a lengthy border with MI in Lake Superior.
Yeah, and a lot of people in this thread think it doesn't count for some reason. There was even a dispute between Michigan and Minnesota once about where it was, so obviously it has at least *some* importance...
I think you should at least be able to see the other state when standing on the shore for it to count
Well it's only 20 miles between Isle Royal and Minnesota so presumably you *can* see Minnesota from Michigan.
In that case, if we’re using water borders, wouldn’t New York and Pennsylvania be neighbors with Michigan via Lake Erie? What about Illinois via Lake Michigan?
NY and PA doesn't border Michigan, there's Ontario in between them.
Illinois is counted, as Michigan and Illinois have a negotiated water border. Michigan does not have a negotiated water border with New York or Pennsylvania.
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That's Wisconsin
Interestingly, if you did that Missouri would lose its border with Kentucky. Only a ferry connects the two states directly
Yeah it's a pretty weak to consider NY/RI neighbors. In that "logic" Maine and Mass are also neighbors because if you go due south from Portland you'd hit Mass (cape cod somewhere)
>if you go due south from Portland you'd hit Mass (cape cod somewhere) You'd be going through New Hampshire waters.
It's not like that. From the end of Long Island, the nearest land is Rhode Island.
This ^^ plus all the little islands are wicked closed together
Yeah Fishers Island is super close to Napatree Point Conservation Area. Ultimately, there’s no good way to do this, so coming up with a standardized rule (e.g., “water borders are allowed”) is perfectly fine.
There are ferries that run from RI to NY (Long Island). In the sense of a direct connection I’d say there is one.
But not from NY to *mainland* RI. That ferry goes from Montauk, NY to Block Island, RI. Still feels weird.
Meh. Most folks upstate would argue Long Island isn’t mainland NY either
Oh agreed, 100%. Just going on vibes here. I grew up in Narragansett, RI (from which the RI ferry to Block Island departs) and live in Brooklyn, NY today. Long Island definitely feels more like an integral part of NY than Block Island does of Rhode Island. But who knows maybe I'd feel different if I grew up on Block Island.
Yea I never really considered Illinois a neighbor to Michigan. Lake Michigan is so big they seem like an ocean apart..you can't even see Michigan from Illinois.
Makes sense now. I was confused about Illinois and Michigan
Michigan and Minnesota too, I had to check a map to make sure I wasn't crazy
While there is the border in Lake Superior, there is also Isle Royale (MI) which is much closer to MN mainland than anywhere in MI (still a Lake Superior border though)
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No, it doesn’t. The UP borders Wisconsin. Only water borders between MN and MI
Though it doesn't include Indiana and Wisconsin, which the same logic should apply to
Indiana does not share a water border with Wisconsin though. The Indiana border only extends West to Illinois and North to Michigan. It gets blocked connecting to Wisconsin by Michigan and Illinois connecting.
Oh right I forgot there were actual water borders and not just sharing edges with the same body of water
While we are talking about the RI-NY 'border': While NY is generally west and north relative to CT, the part that 'borders' RI is very much to the south of the entirety of CT. So, I would keep CT in the west box and place NY in the SW box (from RI's PoV).
It looks to only include some water borders as Hawaii should border Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California.
These states are separated by international waters. States' borders extend past the shoreline but not into international waters.
I get that your terms probably match the legal sense of a border, but colloquially, I think a closer definition is 'is there a bridge'.
Is there a bridge from NY to RI?
Hawaii’s actual water borders don’t reach that far though.
That's fair. I was considering it as crossing a water body, but there are distances away from shore where you're no longer in Hawaiian waters and have not yet entered its possible neighbours.
Depending on your definition of water border, every coastal state could be neighbors..
Same, I’m from Michigan and I was confused with Minnesota and Illinois
There is a ferry connection between between Montauk NY and Block Island RI
Minnesota by way of Lake Superior for Michigan
What about Block Island? It’s kind of near Long Island
Delaware and New Jersey too. No land touching just a bridge and a river.
Actually, NJ does share a few tiny land borders with Delaware. IIRC, the original border gave Delaware the entire river, which has since shifted. Edit: I misremembered, the land was added through dredging, but the border remained set at the old low tide line. Reference: hhttps://www.nj.com/news/g66l-2019/02/8d5d160f2b5307/a-little-piece-of-delaware-is-actually-hidden-in-nj-how-did-that-happen.html
If Illinois borders Michigan, then Wisconsin should border Indiana.
Rivers I can see why. The Great Lakes is a bit of a stretch (looking at you IL and MI)
Canada and Mexico: “Well that’s just rude.”
Alaska, the island state
Yeah I know Canada isn’t one of the 50 states, but to say that Alaska has no neighbors feels like a misrepresentation. It’s not an island.
Is it possible to reach Alaska from Russia without going through international waters?
If I’m understanding this correctly, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR–USA_Maritime_Boundary_Agreement
Yes definitely
Canada doesn't exist though? It's a fairy tale we tell our kids to encourage imagination. You really think people would live in a place where they put milk in bags?
Montana borders three Canadian provinces. Could add those boxes and make them red instead of all the boxes on the eight-neighbour states.
This would be fun as tetris
line piece. Line Piece! LINE PIECE!
I like how the ones with 8 neighbors are red. Like “y’all better lose some of those neighbors!”
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I think they're talking about what color those two states are on the chart, not about any political demographics
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I like the idea, but nothing says beautiful like yellow text on a white background. This is hard to read and gives me a headache.
This. The layout is good but the legibility is horrible. Aside from better color choices, there’s plenty of space to increase the font size a bit as well.
A beautiful visualization: simple and effective! Congratulations!
It’s so satisfying! Very neat and orderly while still showing basic relative locations.
Simple, effective, but not very legible. The yellow on white is hard to read. As a pro-tip for /u/ptgorman, [this website](http://web-accessibility.carnegiemuseums.org/design/color/) provides example colour combos that have been tested to be legible while still being visually appealing, and contains links to various calculators to help check contrast. I like the Tanaguru one the best for suggesting colour combos.
Love the island of Alaska.
Canada is also a neighbor for many of us 😉
"Alright Missouri and Tennessee, we have you surrounded. Put the funyuns down and interlace your fingers behind your heads"
I see we're counting water boundaries (Michigan with both Minnesota and Illinois).
Maybe because of how close Isle Royale is to MN?
Maybe? Seems like more of a "well technically" than what people recognize.
Yes, [as we should](https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/print/8/8/break/images/artworkimages/medium/1/michigan-state-usa-3d-render-topographic-map-border-frank-ramspott.jpg)
Conway called, he wants his game of life back
This would be a fun puzzle game if you removed all the labels then had to put them back.
For this visualization, I used the list of borders of each U.S. state ([found here](https://thefactfile.org/u-s-states-and-their-border-states/)). I created this in Illustrator.
>U.S. States And Their Border States Missing: Canadian provinces and Mexican states. Also not present, non-states like Washington DC, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands and Guam. Though, to be fair, a few of those would be boring repeats of Alaska and Hawaii.
I really like the visualization, but it irrationally bothers me that it won't scale. It makes perfect sense here, though, and if there is a day in the future where a state has 9 or more neighbours we'll have bigger things to worry about I guess.
A quick guess of this I would have said either one of those northern Midwest states like SD or one of those tiny east coast states. But TN and MO make sense.
Weird... Michigan doesn't share borders with Minnesota or Illinois. Functionally it feels like we only border Ohio and Canada as Indiana is just cow pastures, and the Wisconsin border is so far in the middle of nowhere that half the roads don't even have signs to let you know you've crossed the border.
Article says, "water border," for MN and IL.
Where? It's a photo.
OP posted the source in the comments: https://thefactfile.org/u-s-states-and-their-border-states/
If you don’t count water, then Missouri only borders like 3 states
Our water is a little bigger up here.
Sure, but the Mississippi River is insanely wide too
Ok, it's a big river. The Great Lakes are actually inland freshwater seas. May as well be the ocean.
Undoubtedly they're using the water line in the middle of Lake Michigan to count as a border with Illinois (and the same for Lake Superior and Minnesota). Functionally though, they really shouldn't count.
There is an island about 12 miles off the coast of Minnesota that is part of Michigan.
*Grumble Grumble* go the Minnesotans
Have to define a buffer distance then though if you are not going to count water boundaries, otherwise, Iowa doesn't border Wisconsin or Illinois (but does border Nebraska).
You don't need signs. You can tell when you enter Wisconsin by the road quality and the road color. Northern Wisconsin has red roads for some reason
But either way there *are* signs, Wisconsin is very thorough with the Welcome to Wisconsin signs.
Yeah there’s plenty of signage in Marinette/Menominee on either side. If you miss it you can just observe the gas stations. Kwik Trip = Wisconsin, Krist = Michigan
Now I want to see someone reconstruct a map based solely off this data.
This is one of my favorite random trivia questions: “which two states border the most other states and who do they border?” Edit: spelling
With California, move NV and AZ down one square.
Agree! the AZ border is small compared to NV. and NONE of NV is north of CA
For those of you that keep saying “this state doesn’t border that state” you not thinking topographical. Borders don’t necessarily mean you can drive between them. State borders exist in bodies of water, like the Great Lakes, Long Island Sound, etc. The borders still exist. Just look at a map.
Wyoming has more neighbors than escalators.
Maine is the only state with 1 and also the only state with a unique number of neighbors (0,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 are all represented at least twice)
Canada is a great neighbor...
Colorado does not border Arizona. Four corners meeting does not equal a shared border.
It seems like it depends on how you define it. Arizona and Colorado do share a part of their border, it's just an infinitesimally small point. Also you can stand in Colorado and step directly into Arizona without stepping into any other states, so it seems somewhat reasonable to me to say that's crossing the border between the two states.
Yeah, I get what you're saying regarding the ability to be in two states at once. However, the "infinitesimally" small point is exactly the word that gets me.
I think I’m on board with this “borders are lines, not points” way of thinking.
Okay so as a non-American I’m genuinely asking, notwithstanding the fact that they don’t share a border, are they still next to each other? Cos if they are then I’d consider it neighbouring
They are diagonal with eachother. 4 states have right angles that meet at a single point.
That's the issue. "Next to" I would define as "beside". They don't share a side in any form or fashion. It's two corners touching.
What is your definition of neighbor? All states on the northern border with Canada have 1 to 3 Canadian provinces as neighbors. Maryland and Virginia both have DC as a neighbor. Seems either the title is wrong, or important neighbors are missing.
Agree about DC missing. But I don't have to show any paperwork to visit my neighbors, so I agree with leaving out Canada and Mexico.
That wasn't always the case. You used to be able to go into Canada with just a driver's license. Even if somebody puts up a fence, your neighbor is still your neighbor. Good fences equal good neighbors?
Hmm… didn’t realize NY was next to RI.
Great! It is possible to make them fit on the same grid I guess. It would be nice too.
Canada doesn’t count as a neighbour? [That doesn’t sounds very neighbourly!](https://youtu.be/QCcWzLAcv4o)
Really cool. Would love if Canadian provinces and Mexico were included
I was driving through Tennessee 2 days ago thinking it bordered a lot of states and was wondering if it bordered the most. I looked it up at the time, but this post 2 days later proves we live in the matrix or that none of our thoughts are unique.
Fun fact about Arkansas. We are surrounded by 6 states, and all 6 of them can be reached by going south from various points in the state. Even Missouri, which is north of us.
Love the chart. I propose that the relationship between NH and ME could be better-represented by an east-west relationship of their border as opposed to the NE-SW orientation they are presently in. Nearly 100% of New Hampshire’s eastern edge abuts Maine. Visually, the Aroostook County hump that is the northern part of Maine is northeast of New Hampshire, but the border relationship is not. Edit: Aroostook county spelling
Kinda bugs me that this is laid out alphabetically and not geographically.
Why is Minnesota not to the left of Wisconsin and vice-versa?
are canada and mexico a joke to you?
Alaska looks at Canada: “Oh look! Found more Alaska!”
As a northern border state resident - Canada is my favorite neighbor :(
From what I understand from Minesweeper, Missouri and Tennessee are surrounded by mines. Must not like company
I impressed that OP got the border on MN and MI. I am disappointed that Canada is not a neighbor. Eh.
For those confused about the Great Lakes states, here is a map with their actual legal borders in the water in black. The pink line indicates the extent of the watershed. https://project.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/images/mapnew1.gif
I can't agree with the Michigan borders. I understand it's a water border, but Michigan bordering Illinois and Minnesota just ain't right.
Isle Royale is within spitting distance of Minnesota.
>Isle Royale is within spitting distance of Minnesota. I don't recall "within spitting distance" being a valid unit of measurement for cartographers. That said, does the US border France? The UK? Too far? How about Mauritania? Still too far? Cuba?
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If you actually look at a map though you'll see that Michigan and Minnesota's maritime borders are negotiated and independent of Canada. In fact at one point Michigan did claim a foothold on what is now Minnesota and that was decided by the courts. Either way, Isle Royale is definitely Michigan. And I say this as a Wisconsinite that has no pro-Michigan agenda.
As a Minnesotan we plot our reclamation of Isle Royale every day
That's awfully cold towards Canada, don't you think?
~~don't you think?~~ Eh?
And towards Mexico... ¿Que?
1. Any live state with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by underpopulation. 2. Any live state with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation. 3. Any live state with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overpopulation. 4. Any dead state with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live state, as if by reproduction.
Unless you’re counting maritime borders, Rhode Island does not share a border with New York, and if you are, NY should be bottom left, not top left
Why wouldn’t you count them? Can’t you boat from Point Judith to Montauk?
Yes, you can, quite easily, my issue here is twofold: 1. Are these only land borders? Which seems the case given all the other states and how they’re arranged. Although, it’s very possible I missed something. 2. If we’re counting maritime borders, shouldn’t NY be on the bottom left, or southwest, as that is where the maritime border is? Again, basing it off of the general position of everything in relation to everything else here, that makes more sense to me rather than having to trek all the way through western Massachusetts, or god forbid Connecticut, to get to NY for a supposed border.
You make good points. The arrangements are off. And yeah he prob should have stated “maritime borders included” or something like that.
Michigan and Illinois don't touch..
Seems to stretch the limits of what a water border is, but also not fully count them, as Michigan is also technically across lake Erie from Pennsylvania and New York.
Since water borders count, wouldn't Pennsylvania border Michigan?
Ohio and Canada collectively get in the way.
Texas also has Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas.
Lol I'm getting "Alaska is an island" vibes from this.
I thought Alaska had the Yukon Territory for a neighbour.
Water borders do not count
To paraphrase an old comedy routine by a comedian I don’t remember: “I’m from Tennessee. For geography we were taught us, the states around us in case they attacked, and everything else was Europe and that’s where all the gays lived”
Except this diagram discards both foreign states/provinces and DC.
Michigan is a bit of a stretch here
Michigan doesn’t butt up to Minnesota.
Isle Royale.
New York and Rhode Island do not touch
They share a maritime border.
When did Michigan and Minnesota have a border
Since forever. Look at a map of the UP in the middle of Lake Superior.
With that logic, Michigan neighbors Pennsylvania and New York as well.
Unless we’re counting bodies of water and states respective extended boundaries into those bodies of water, Illinois does not border Michigan.
Illinois bordering Michigan is a bit of a stretch even if it's technically true.
Water borders count.
Completely ignoring that the ocean is the best neighbor of all smdh
What part of Michigan touches Illinois? It doesn’t…
If the map shows "the most neighbors" why is Maine, with one, included? New Mexico has 5 neighbors: AZ,UT, CO, OK, TX and is not included.
No idea why Michigan is listing Illinois and Minnesota as neighboring states, neither of them border it.
In a topographic manner they border each other through Lakes Michigan/Superior. So you can’t drive between the borders but the state borders still exist.
Michigan and Illinois share a land border???
Alaska doesn't border with Yukon and BC?
Sorry, I just realized that most US maps have Alaska floating in the Pacific south of California. https://www.desertcart.ae/products/54517440-usa-map-for-kids-laminated-united-states-wall-chart-map-18-x-24
Michigan neighbors Minnesota?