What US States do non US EC users recognize

Tbh the only state I know the location on the map is Texas.

 

So folks have a basic map as reference:


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I recognise some states along the edges of the USA. I'd get at least 10 of them correct. The rest... uh... probably not ^^;

I'm pretty sure I know where to locate New York, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Arizona, California, Washington, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Of course I can also recognise Alaska and Hawaii, but I think many people can. They stand out.

For the record, I'm British, and we talked about the USA, in our Modern Studies class, at high school. I used to know all the states (and probably bragged about it), but now that information has given way for gaming or something.

 

By name nearly all familiar but can't count them.

On map I can easily recognize Alaska, Hawaii, Florida and California. Others iffy on their exact location.

 

By name, I am pretty okay, but the only one I can recognise on the map is Texas, probably because it was on Spongebob once

 

Arfff

The states i recognized from the map is just : Alaska, Hawaii, Florida, New York, California, Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington

 

Illinois, Missouri, and Ohio only

 

Alaska

 

How people know where the Dakotas are before Kentucky blows my mind. Did the Dakotas give you Johnny Deep, Jennifer Lawrence, bourbon, or fried chicken?

LOL.

 

Most Americans can't find all 50 on a map

 

They're all familiar to me by name -- if I spent enough time on it I think I could name all 50 without looking at a list -- but on a map? I can only place Michigan (so easy), Texas (ditto), California, Alaska, Hawaii, Illinois, Oregon, Washington, and FLorida.

 

I recognise all the names, but the only states I'd sort of remembered the locations of were these, the ones in bold are the ones I knew the best (and the things I remember them most for) :

Washington, -where da President lives.
Oregon, -Courtney love comes from here.
Nevada, -aliens might live here.
California, -Hollywood and ridiculously beautiful people.
Alaska, -it's fucking cold but beautiful.
Nebraska, -saw it pointed out on a map once.
Texas, -lots of things.
Kentucky, -fried chicken and home to future Empress of the world.
Tennessee, -has some gorgeous mountains and contains Nashville; home of country music.
Florida, -my father went to Disney World here when I was a child, and brought back photos.
Virginia, -a family in-joke. Basically, my mother used to pronounce vagina as "virginia".
New York, -well known for many reasons, featured in lots of films and TV.
Maine. -Stephen King comes from here.

My geographical knowledge isn't as sharp nowadays, I used to look at maps a lot as a child and because America was somewhere I intended to visit one day I probably could have identified various states much better back then.

 

You know what's funnier is when you ask people who live here to draw a map of their own country. Some of the results are pretty great http://www.buzzfeed.com/adamellis/h...-ask-people-to-draw-maps-of-the-u#.tjX98zwE9L

I once asked an aussie friend how many of the states he knew by name, he got a few of the more obscure ones (outside of California, NY, Texas, etc) but i think its just cause he listens to sufjan stevens

 

I studied British and American studies at uni, geography included. I could name all states and their capitals and place most of them on the map. While at uni I knew them all and we aslo had to know nicknanes for all states :lol: but I don't remember them all anymore

 

California, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, Texas, and Florida...

I've been to Ohio and Indiana, drove to both of them, couldn't tell ya where they are on a map or what state(s) I passed through to get there!

 

I can name almost all states, but on the map, I can only point out California, Texas, Alaska, Hawaii, Nevada, Florida...

 

U.S. Geography tests stood no chance, when I knew this song:

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All of them, and can easily place them all on a map.

 

Texas is the one that looks like a foam finger.

Alaska is attached to northern Canada.

Hawaii is chilling by itself in the ocean.

California is the skinny one on the west coast.

I'm pretty sure New York is the weird little rectangle not too far from the Ontario border. Hmm. Wait, NY Islanders... Okay so I guess they're somewhere with an island.

Im also pretty sure that New York is across some body of water from New Jersey? Because Jersey and New York have very similar placements to Gotham and Metropolis. Umm. Maybe New Jersey is the weird mountain-shaped state that's poking the weird rectangle of New York?

Florida is the little weird piece of land that's sticking out of the bottom of continental America.

Detroit is on the other side of Lake Ontario?

And Maine is also somewhere not far from the Ontario border I think. I've never been to the United States and it really shows.