How are people supposed to tell these states apart when 99% of them look like a 3 year old's first attempt at drawing a square?
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Pretty easy when you grow up learning a thing
Really? Have you learned about German states at school?
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USians downvoting, what a surprise 😂
It’s weird, Australian schools didn’t teach them either… does the rest of the world exist, perhaps?
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Nope, but I think there may be Bavaria, Westfalia, Saxony? Can’t think of any others at the moment but I assume there are a couple more.
It’s a bit trickier, since Germany was still divided when I was in grade school.
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Context
How are you supposed to tell European countries apart when 99% of them look like amorphous blobs?
You don't have to, just know that we are united by our common hate for The French™
And we also don’t shorten all of our countries expecting people to know what we meant.
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Italy looks like a boot. Finland is a woman waving. Sweden and Norway are a cock-
(but seriously, tbf, I get your point, context and learning to memorize the shapes and locations is a big part of it)
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I could tell you that's Alabama but my problem is I would have no idea that face was supposed to mean something, it looks like a blank stare to me
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Most US states are the size of EU countries. We don’t know the “states” of EU countries because those are like counties in our states, and most people barely know all of their own state’s counties because there are too many.
Empty landmass isn't the only important thing.
I.e. Florida, the third most populous US state (21M), is about half the size of the whole of Germany.
But Germany's most populous state (North Rhine - Westphalia / NRW) has a pop of 18M.
It's waaaaay smaller, but the n of inhabitants is comparable.
To the point: I don't think , it's necessary to know the names of foreign states. But it's good to know roughly what's going on in the world. It is no secret, that US Americans are exceptionally caught in their own bubble.
Or, for another perspective: In terms of population, Ohio and Belgium are pretty much equal, but in terms of area, the former is 4x as large.
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to be fair to georgia, the bottom is shaped like that because of a river, I assume thats the case for AL as well
I was under the impression a lot of states use rivers or water ways as state lines. Guessing it was that way as it was easiest before gps.
Each state had to agree on the boundaries, and as with all of human history they were quite possessive and possibly greedy. Thats why in the middle of the Mojave Desert the lines are all clean and uniform: nobody was willing to fight over the middle of the Mojave Desert.
EDIT: Also it caused a lot of disputes when rivers were nobody's territory as they were a major mode of transportation and people on the river or crossing the river would end up being harassed by landowners on either side as if they owned the river.
I like how that one state has a thin slice that stops Texas from touching the two above it.
That's Oklahoma and everyone in Texas hates it. Anyone who says otherwise is an escaped Oklahoman and the authorities need to be alerted so they can be returned to their isolation
Really, that's just OK taking one for the team. We should encourage their policy of Texas Isolation until they are the only bordering state.
It's because if Texas claimed territory above where the northern border currently is, they wouldn't have been allowed to join the Union as a slave state.
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Doesn’t matter. Just take the piss the same.
That's a look that says "please just stop and go away." The girl's, that is. The guy's look says "I wonder what human meat tastes like."
Fuck I forgot his name but hes craaazy at geoguessr 😂 edit, brainvolt or something like that
Rainbolt, it's in the post title.
No, Brainvolt.
Brainvolt is kinda pretty good name, though.
People in Alabama don’t look as refined as this. They look like you’d expect orange-man cultists would look. Sorry Alabamans.
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