What's the most popular/recognized state...by it's shape?

[sdifox]

Texas

because of TI chips

 

[Crono]

Florida and Michigan. Sorry, CA and TX are not nearly as distinctive.

Yes on Florida, no on Michigan. I bet most people not from the Great Lakes region wouldn't be able to differentiate between Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin on a map.

Florida and Texas are the most recognizable, especially after hurricane coverage sears it into your memory. California and the non-contiguous states likely after that.

 

[Jeeebus]

Florida even got a Simpsons reference as America's Wang. definitely the most distinctive and easily recognizable as a whole.

 

[ElFenix]

It's Hawaii due to dirty jokes

 

[bruceb]

You can have some fun and learn a bit about which state is where by playing this:
http://jimspages.com/States.htm

Or if you do not want to place the states, use this game to id each state by clicking on it:
https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3003

 

[SKORPI0]

 

[lxskllr]

LoL at Colorado and Wyoming, with Utah as a runner up. I guess the consolation prize is being geometrically perfect. Wonder if they are? I'll try to remember to look it up later.

 

[KB]

Maryland doesn't care about state shape, but we love our flag here. It's pretty ridiculous.

Because we have the silliest shaped state, thin in spots, fat in others, but our flag is the coolest by far.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fla.../File:Map_of_the_United_States_with_flags.svg

 

[ImpulsE69]

Well obviously, it's Puerto Rico.

 

[Crono]

Florida even got a Simpsons reference as America's Wang. definitely the most distinctive and easily recognizable as a whole.

 

[John Connor]

So I've lived in IL, IA, NE, AZ and now in Kentucky. I've traveled across the US a lot as well. But never have I seen a population embrace a state as much as Kentucky. Literally, the outline of the state is everywhere. Window stickers in cars. Tshirts. Cups. Hell there's even a number of people with the outline of the state as a tattoo.

There are states that unique in shape, Texas is obviously very recognizable, as is Florida. California to a certain degree. New York as well. But I've never seen any other state turned into a marketing identity like Kentucky.

 

[lxskllr]

LoL at Colorado and Wyoming, with Utah as a runner up. I guess the consolation prize is being geometrically perfect. Wonder if they are? I'll try to remember to look it up later.

close enough...

As specified in the designating legislation for the Territory of Wyoming, Wyoming's borders are lines of latitude, 41°N and 45°N, and longitude, 104°3'W and 111°3'W (27° W and 34° W of the Washington Meridian), making the shape of the state a latitude-longitude quadrangle.[13] Wyoming is one of only three states (along with Colorado and Utah) to have borders along only straight latitudinal and longitudinal lines, rather than being defined by natural landmarks. Due to surveying inaccuracies during the 19th century, Wyoming's legal border deviates from the true latitude and longitude lines by up to half of a mile (0.8 km) in some spots, especially in the mountainous region along the 45th parallel.[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming

 

[Thebobo]

Because we have the silliest shaped state, thin in spots, fat in others, but our flag is the coolest by far.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_U.S._states_and_territories#/media/File:Map_of_the_United_States_with_flags.svg

It is!

 

[SKORPI0]

Time to revise the states into this....

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/...population_what_would_the_map_of_america.html

 

[IronWing]

It is!

The Knights of Columbus meet NASCAR.

 

[zinfamous]

Florida even got a Simpsons reference as America's Wang. definitely the most distinctive and easily recognizable as a whole.

You know, every time I think of America's Wang, I think of Jeebus.

(I really do. )

 

[BudAshes]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_States_Got_Their_Shapes

Hawaii and Alaska?

Can You Identify These US States By Their Shapes?

I think your video has multiple personality disorder.

 

[NesuD]

Yes on Florida, no on Michigan. I bet most people not from the Great Lakes region wouldn't be able to differentiate between Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin on a map.

Florida and Texas are the most recognizable, especially after hurricane coverage sears it into your memory. California and the non-contiguous states likely after that.

Why would you think that?

 

[sdifox]

Why would you think that?

 

[Scarpozzi]

I propose that we make a new set of state quarters that are in the shapes of the actual states. That would help everyone remember what the states are shaped like!