Did you know Missouri and Tennessee border 8 other states?

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I was just casually looking at a map of the contiguous US, always liked to study maps, and found that Missouri and Tennessee are bordered by eight other states…the most of all others. Whaddya know about that.

Kentucky is next, bordered by seven other states.

Nebraska, Idaho, Arkansas and Colorado (of the four-corners region), are each bordered by six others. Curiously, Utah, also of the four four-corners region is bordered by 5, while the other two four-corners states, Arizona and New Mexico, each only border four others, as one would think, and I’m not including the three other states the four-corner states touch at their corners, at which one can stand in all four at the same time (there is a monument there).

The states in the four corners of the US, not the four-corners region of the US, are northeastern Maine, bordering only one state, New Hampshire; southeastern Florida borders only Georgia and Alabama; Washington in the northwest only Idaho and Oregon; and finally California in the western and southern corner of the nation, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. So the corner states respectively border one, two, two and three states.

I’ll add the states clustered together in the mid-south region border each other the most, and the ones at the corners, the least. Little Rhode Island tucked away next to Connecticut and Massachusetts, only touch those two.

That’s it, that’s enough, except the island state Hawaii and the big north state Alaska border no other states, but you can see Russia from Sarah Palin's...never mind.

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1. Another reason I like living in Maine.

Close to Canada.

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2. I've also always been fascinated by maps,

and love to travel.

I remember a trivia question being which two states border eight others including each other, which would be MO & TN.

Another interesting thing was which was the only state from which one could travel straight south and enter each of its bordering states. Different starting point, of course. That state is Arkansas. The bootheel of MO angles SW, and the border with OK is also an angle that makes it work.

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3. I think Colorado borders 7 states

New Mexico, Arizona, Utah ( 4 corners ), plus Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, and a little bit of the Oklahoma panhandle.

I grew up and Kansas.

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4. The four corners state don't exactly share a border with the other three four corner states.

[NNadir]

10. I would like to suggest that if one can take one step and be in another State, it is, in fact, a border.

It may be an infinitely small border, but a border all the same.

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11. A border being a single pin point of land is one way of looking at it.

[Fla Dem]

5. Little Massachusetts borders 5 states; NH, VT NY RI & CT and has 2 Islands

Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.

[yellowdogintexas]

6. Fun Fact: From which vantage point can you see seven states?

Answer: Lookout Mountain Tennessee (in Chattanooga)

The marker at the summit of Lookout Mountain claims seven states may be viewed from the site. From the "Rock City" point, a marker claims that seven U.S. states can be seen: Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.

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7. Good one. Thank you.

[lpbk2713]

8. Another fun fact:

Key West is about 50 miles closer to Havana than it is Miami.

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14. The keys are unlike anywhere else in the country. I've been to that monument at the southern-most point...

in the US.

[AllaN01Bear]

9. if me late mom was allowed to in her generation, she would have made an eggscllent cartographer.

i love maps .

[DFW]

12. I live in a country smaller than some states that has a land border with 9 other countries

Germany has a land border with Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland.

And some people still ask why Europeans think learning other languages is useful!

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13. I didn't know that about Germany. Good point on being multi-lingual.

It's a huge advantage.

[DFW]

15. Not being multilingual is pretty much the exception

I have the neighboring countries pretty much covered except for Czech and Polish, and between Russian, German and English, I manage to make myself understood in both places. Otherwise, I speak Scandinavian (Swedish in my case, but it is similar to Danish and Norwegian), Dutch, French, German and Schwyzerdütsch. Germany doesn’t have a common border with Spain, but I’m down there often enough that speaking Spanish and Catalan is a must for me.

[niyad]

16. Fascinating, and thank you. sarah palin's nevermind, if one punctuates

correctly (I clearly need more caffeine!)

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17. and Reno is west of Los Angeles

It was hard to wrap my head around that one.

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18. Wow. That's a new one on me too.