I remember reading that certain long-established E-W lines for state boundaries are in some cases a bit off from modern surveying methods using GPS - I’m guessing it might be states like New Mexico or others in the West or Southwest? Does this cause problems for boundary disputes at some level, or how bad does it have to be? 100 yards?
Kaskaskia Illinois is on the West side of the Mississippi River…
When I was travelling to NYC from Dublin the first time I was amazed to see land below me for a significant chunk of the second half of the journey. I surmised it must be Canada but it still seemed strange to me. I imagined that the plane would fly over Western Ireland and then across the Atlantic approaching NYC from the east and then landing. I forgot the earth is round!
It never fails to fool us. When we came to Los Angeles from Copenhagen we arrived at LA from the north.
What major U.S. city is directly north of which large Canadian city?
Detroit, Mi.
Winsor, On.
One from Brazil - Recife is closer to west Africa than to parts of the eastern Brazilian state of Acre.
I know, I misspelled Windsor!
There are parts of the netherlands inside parts of Belgium inside the Netherlands
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith//baarle.htm
There are parts of the “lower” forty-eight of the US that you can get to by land only through Canada.
Point Roberts, WA: Point Roberts, Washington - Wikipedia
Northwest Angle, MN Northwest Angle - Wikipedia
The latter is the northernmost point in the lower forty-eight
Alburgh VT
Province Point VT
and vice versa: St Regis Quebec
http://www.cnwl.igs.net/~hmi/mapsr.html
There is an integral part of France located in the Western Hemisphere
The location of Chicago was originally in what would hav ebecome teh state of Wisconsin (maybe but definitely not teh state of Illinois. In fact the original northern boundaries of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois were to be colinear and farther south then they are now. The Northern Peninsula of Michigan was not to belong to Michigan
Jungholz in Austria touches the rest of Austria at only a single point.
Buesingen Germany is entirely within Switzerland
as is Campione d’Italia
But you can still reach Carter Lake, IA directly from the rest of Iowa. You just need to take a boat or an aircraft.
Such is NOT the case for the Kentucky nipple. You must travel thru another state besides Kentucky to enter that bit of Kentucky.
Why is this odd?
Yes, it does.
Alaska is the most northerly, westerly and easterly state!
I started a thread on whether the US is just too far south for light-skinned people when I saw the following on a map:[ul][]Scandinavia, where the lightest skinned Europeans live, is at the same latitude range as Alaska.[]Britain is as far north as Labrador.[]The northernmost of the lower 48 states are at the latitude of central France.[]The southernmost parts of Europe- southern Spain, Sicily and Greece- are at the latitude of North Carolina.Florida and southern Texas are as far south as Egypt.[/ul]
I’ve got nothing to add, but I have to get this off my chest.
Two weeks from everywhere!
How many U.S. states are farther north (in part, at least) than the southernmost part of Canada?
Twenty-six!
(The bar bet version of this question is: How many states are north of Canada?)
Indeed. They surprised me, too.
The Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Algeria, and Argentina are all larger than Greenland. India is almost 150% of Greenland’s size.
My playing with Google Earth gives it ~485 mi. to Austin and only ~455 mi. to Lincoln, Nebraska.
Cairo is the modern capital of Egypt, and Memphis was the ancient capital of the Pharaohs.