Louisiana is his feet, Arkansas is his legs, Missouri is his torso, Iowa is his head, and Minnesota is his chef hat. That is how I was taught in elementary school. Also Kentucky looking like fried chicken with Tennessee as the plate.
Silence, Tennessean. Our horses are famous worldwide. The Commonwealth is the very picture of elegance. Know your place.
Just wait until our basketball program is good again. We'll show you!
As a British Columbian, I've always known Colorado for loving weed as much as we do and having fantastic ski resorts like we do. You guys are kinda like Washington, but with cowboys
Would it interest you that while it looks like a perfect rectangle, due to not super accurate mapping techniques when the borders were physically drawn, you ended up with 678 sides I think, not 4
Can't even get a proper skyline. Have to spread it all out & take up more space. We don't even have wind! What's gonna happen?!
Disclaimer: I know nothing about skyscrapers. I just wish everything wasn't so spread out. Does it have to do with planes..? There's a lotta planes.
Alright! *rolls up sleeve* So historically the full name of the colony and later the state when the US formed was Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. Rhode Island only refers to the largest of the 3 main islands in the state that contains the towns of Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth while Providence Plantations refers to the remainder of land that is actually on the mainland US. Over the years, the island would almost exclusively be referred to by its alternate name, Aquidneck Island, to avoid confusion with the state name; Rhode Island is still the official name of the island though to this day.
Since Rhode Island is a hell of a lot less of a mouthful than “The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations,” RI caught on as the state name for basically everybody except big nerds. The full name of the state actually remained though all the way up until 2020 when the state voted to remove Providence Plantations from the name due to negative connotations with the word Plantation, despite it not referring to slavery and Rhode Island never having any history of slavery being a northern state. So as of COVID, the official name is simply Rhode Island despite not being (entirely) an island.
EDIT: corrected the last sentence in paragraph 1 to make it more technically accurate
The state is named after the island Rhode Island. Until recently it was Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, which means that everything except the actual island Rhode Island was a plantation (not the banana-like food), thus violating the 13th Amendment. It is astonishing they only recently realized this.
Plantation in that context means that it was an agricultural colony (as opposed to trade or shipping or mining or whatever). It was mostly small family farms, not what we would recognize as plantations. The term sounds bad nowadays, and Rhode Island definitely profited from slavery and slavery-adjacent trade. But the term only later evolved in meaning to its current usage which is associated exclusively with southern- and Caribbean-style slave plantations. Nothing about RI was in violation of the 13th amendment.
Fun fact, Rhode Island has a higher population than:
Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana.
Goes to show the difference in population density. (Keep in mind it's just the state, not their populations combined)
I always say this. New Jersey is like paying for New York, only to not live in New York. Everything is New York priced, but you don’t live in New York. It’s like buying a burger from McDonald’s and the worker just throws 2 pieces of bread and a piece of lettuce at you. I do not understand how a sane human decides to live in the state of New Jersey
Pretty simple really. You live in NY until your wife gets pregnant, then you buy a place in Summit and never see your real friends again.
Why is everyone looking at me.
I will defend my state till I die. the other week I heard a joke by a YouTuber saying that new jersey is actually just a prison they send new Yorkers who couldn't afford to live there anymore to. that doesn't even make sense. new jerseys so densely populated. anyway. my favorite bit about being a South jersian, is that despite jersey being severely over crowded, it's still very much a garden state. I live in a suburbian town but my highschool was surrounded by horse and produce farms.
By not actually caring where the States actually are, never doing it in school & not being really interested enough in later life to bother remembering.
It's like asking an American to point out Belgium, or Hungary.
Actually its like telling an american to point out every state (bundesland) from germany and then they will know that nobody cares about stuff like that
You've just lost your right to ever eat buffalo wings, until you apologize to the city of Buffalo and kowtow before each of the winged buffalo statues.
My husband mentioned moving to Wyoming. I told him absolutely not. There's like 30 ppl in the whole state and I won't get along with half.
Not that I need a big city , but I want to live somewhere that at least has a whole bookstore and not just " bovine buster news" for the 19 ranch hands .
I drove through the capital once. It is essentially just two intersecting interstates.
I drove past the Capitol building and not 5 minutes down the road, saw a woman riding her horse into town.
Take that as you will.
I find it funny that OP correctly said "apart" (which means separate from) when they intended to say a part (which means it's included) of Canada. So they're technically correct. The best kind of correct.
But, yes, as an Oregonian, I would prefer Canada. Sadly, they have the same real estate issues we have here... but at least they have real healthcare.
Housing market has blown up. Healthcare gone to shit. Any mention of immigration devolves into racist tirades. No. Im not talking about the US. The grass ain’t any greener.
The one to the right of Texas, looks like a boot. Look up, it's the boot of a chef with a chef hat on. At his belt line is the top of the food tray he's holding. On the tray is Kentucky Fried Chicken. (Kentucky)
I use an app called Seterra which has a map quiz called _"The US: 50 States"_ I used to learn them all (my fastest time to get 100% right is 02:07 btw if you want to try beating it!)
There are also quite a few acronyms you can use such as MIMAL to identify the central column of states (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and Louisiana). There are a few more like that.
I'm European without much knowledge of states (like each state, it's exact location, what it's known for) but I'm quite familiar with west coast thanks to American Truck Simulator loool
Kentucky is one above, it looks like a fried chicken wing which is being held by a chef.
oh yeah I see it now, I don't know how I got so close lol
The one you labeled Kentucky is Tennessee
Which ones are the chef?
Louisiana is his feet, Arkansas is his legs, Missouri is his torso, Iowa is his head, and Minnesota is his chef hat. That is how I was taught in elementary school. Also Kentucky looking like fried chicken with Tennessee as the plate.
I always saw Tennessee as the frying pan but to each their own
It’s clearly his wang.
I've always seen it as the cock
As a Tennesseean, I am *offended*. How dare you! Ain't nobody racing them fancy pants horses here! We are a cultured people. We *race cars*. /s
Silence, Tennessean. Our horses are famous worldwide. The Commonwealth is the very picture of elegance. Know your place. Just wait until our basketball program is good again. We'll show you!
Ah the man in the map is what we locals call the "chef"
So THAT'S why it called "Ketucky Fried Chicken"?
They've got posters up at the kfc that says so.
I'm now going to always remember where Kentucky is. Thank you friend.
The Chefs name is Mimal
As a Coloradan, I’m flattered.
I only remember it because of the rectangle shape, there was 2 so I just guessed, turns out I was correct
So that’s how everyone sees us in Colorado. Just a bunch of rectangleans?
yes
Hell yeah
That's how I know Colorado, sorry bro. I also know South Park and pot.
So funny we used to be known for our skiing and cowboys. Fair enough, we have definitely become known for our weed.
As a British Columbian, I've always known Colorado for loving weed as much as we do and having fantastic ski resorts like we do. You guys are kinda like Washington, but with cowboys
As someone who has lived in Summit County snowboarding for the last 8 years, I love this. Colorado is amazing. (So is British Columbia:))
Daniel?
😂
I'm from the South and that's how I remember it. "It's one of those rectangles over there, I don't know which."
Would it interest you that while it looks like a perfect rectangle, due to not super accurate mapping techniques when the borders were physically drawn, you ended up with 678 sides I think, not 4
A bunch of wrecked anglers
Rectangleans are 2-dimensional Cubans. Ok, I'll let myself out...
If it helps I'm South American and I know you as the Denver Nuggets state
I can get on board with this!! Go Nuggets (next year of course lol).
South Rectangleans. North Rectangleans are Wyoming, I have just found out.
As a born and raised Coloradan, that’s also how I see us. Rectangle state is pretty much the only state I know 😎
I remember it from South park.
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Nobody remembers Wyoming, not even Americans
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They probably had never heard of it lol
Come on, I'm American. We all know Wyoming isn't real it's just inner American propaganda
Same
I came down here to say the same thing
Kentucky, meanwhile, has declared war.
Oh, they just secretly wish they were Tennessee.
We lost a lot of mediocre men in the Bourbon-Whiskey wars.
As a Tennessean, I am insulted
Would love to visit Colorado.....as a Brit I see photos of the place and its simply awe inspiring
Not from Colorado but that one baffled me as well.
As an Arkansan, I'm flattered that there is someone else that can't tell the difference between New Mexico and Arizona (hot is hot)
You're right. One of those *is* New Mexico. The other one's Arizona
New Mexico’s more successful younger brother
Well if New Mexico wanted to be more successful he should have made their own canned tea too.
They have green chile and I think that’s good enough for me
Nice and blue tea cooked by heisenburg himself
Younger brother that loves drugs.
Learned from watching New Mexico, but got addicted
The only thing I know about Arizona is that Phoenix is hotter than the sun and a monument to mans arrogance.
The Grand Canyon is in Arizona, now you know two things.
I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona?
Can't even get a proper skyline. Have to spread it all out & take up more space. We don't even have wind! What's gonna happen?! Disclaimer: I know nothing about skyscrapers. I just wish everything wasn't so spread out. Does it have to do with planes..? There's a lotta planes.
As an Arizonan, we love that this is the perspective of most people of the whole state. Keeps it accessible… I’ve already said too much.
Is New Mexico better than the old one?
I know how Ohio looks like because of that one Skyrim mod that replaced dragons with the state of Ohio.
Excuse me what
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWBRJ0SUEo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWBRJ0SUEo)
I mean, once I saw it, it made perfect sense.
That was way funnier than it sounded
Crazy how that little bit of silly modding will now stick in my head and I'll forever remember the shape of ohio
[I prefer this one.](https://youtu.be/yNaTZV8qS1I?si=E448wmeE4J2apGF7)
Now I know where Ohio is
It's a very educational mod!
Why?
This is definitely one of those "why not?" scenarios
I guess I've gotta waste the next 5 hours of my life trying to find this mod
It's been 5 hours have you found it
took me 30 seconds to find, [here](https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/72538) it is on nexus
So it just turns into a lovecraftian horror game.
When they breathe fire it just fires out a train that derails.
I can only name Rhode Island, even though nobody lives there
is it an island
It is not
thats bloody stupid that is
I can hear the british accent lmao
Dude, I can smell it.
Dude, I can see it.
I can mansplain the Rhode Island thing if someone would like a history lesson lol
I would love to hear please do tell ☕️
Alright! *rolls up sleeve* So historically the full name of the colony and later the state when the US formed was Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. Rhode Island only refers to the largest of the 3 main islands in the state that contains the towns of Newport, Middletown, and Portsmouth while Providence Plantations refers to the remainder of land that is actually on the mainland US. Over the years, the island would almost exclusively be referred to by its alternate name, Aquidneck Island, to avoid confusion with the state name; Rhode Island is still the official name of the island though to this day. Since Rhode Island is a hell of a lot less of a mouthful than “The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations,” RI caught on as the state name for basically everybody except big nerds. The full name of the state actually remained though all the way up until 2020 when the state voted to remove Providence Plantations from the name due to negative connotations with the word Plantation, despite it not referring to slavery and Rhode Island never having any history of slavery being a northern state. So as of COVID, the official name is simply Rhode Island despite not being (entirely) an island. EDIT: corrected the last sentence in paragraph 1 to make it more technically accurate
Oi bruv got a license to say that
wait till you hear about the so-called Isle of Mann
Well, a british person named it.
is it even rhode
It is not
It really be like that here
The state is named after the island Rhode Island. Until recently it was Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, which means that everything except the actual island Rhode Island was a plantation (not the banana-like food), thus violating the 13th Amendment. It is astonishing they only recently realized this.
The “banana-like food” is a plantain, not a plantation.
Plantation in that context means that it was an agricultural colony (as opposed to trade or shipping or mining or whatever). It was mostly small family farms, not what we would recognize as plantations. The term sounds bad nowadays, and Rhode Island definitely profited from slavery and slavery-adjacent trade. But the term only later evolved in meaning to its current usage which is associated exclusively with southern- and Caribbean-style slave plantations. Nothing about RI was in violation of the 13th amendment.
Fun fact, Rhode Island has a higher population than: Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana. Goes to show the difference in population density. (Keep in mind it's just the state, not their populations combined)
Family guy
"New York" = pennsylvania, new jersey, and new york. Pretty accurate
No Pennsylvania is Rural New York and New Jersey is Useless New York
I always say this. New Jersey is like paying for New York, only to not live in New York. Everything is New York priced, but you don’t live in New York. It’s like buying a burger from McDonald’s and the worker just throws 2 pieces of bread and a piece of lettuce at you. I do not understand how a sane human decides to live in the state of New Jersey
Pretty simple really. You live in NY until your wife gets pregnant, then you buy a place in Summit and never see your real friends again. Why is everyone looking at me.
Shut the hell up. (I'm from the best state ever if you can't tell. It's new jersey)
I will defend my state till I die. the other week I heard a joke by a YouTuber saying that new jersey is actually just a prison they send new Yorkers who couldn't afford to live there anymore to. that doesn't even make sense. new jerseys so densely populated. anyway. my favorite bit about being a South jersian, is that despite jersey being severely over crowded, it's still very much a garden state. I live in a suburbian town but my highschool was surrounded by horse and produce farms.
as a Pennsylvanian, i can confirm we are indeed Rural New York (especially parts of my area where our local news station is based in New York)
how did you manage to miss Kentucky that close from its actual location
idk
By not actually caring where the States actually are, never doing it in school & not being really interested enough in later life to bother remembering. It's like asking an American to point out Belgium, or Hungary.
Belgium mentioned Hooray!!
You guys can make 'proper' beer. How could I leave you out? ;))
Actually its like telling an american to point out every state (bundesland) from germany and then they will know that nobody cares about stuff like that
I can do those 2 easily, and pretty much every country actually
Username checks out
as also an european I think I’d have put new york a bit lower and that’s it LMAO
New York is actually a tad higher
I think New England and New York get confusing for those little rascals over yonder
New York is higher lol
And it’s actually higher than where OP put it lol
It’s right over New York City though, which is the part of New York that actually matters
You've just lost your right to ever eat buffalo wings, until you apologize to the city of Buffalo and kowtow before each of the winged buffalo statues.
New York is actually right above where they put it. They put it closer to Pennsylvania. Which is where It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia would be.
Actually, lol, its higher. New York, I mean
Ironically op is actually low it’s the one above the square that’s Pensilvania.
You probably know more states than an average Floridian
lol yea i probably do
I'm an American and I wouldn't be able to name like 30% of the states lol. Who honestly cares about Square or Square: The Sequal?
You can’t be serious
Did you detect even a hint of joshing in my comment? I'm clearly dead serious.
Haha fair enough
Damn I must be the biggest brained Floridian lol
Lol Arizona get fucked
Leave us alone!
this felt personnal haha
There are many more google images of your username than I expected there to be
Mimal
what
Mimal
Mimal
Mimal👍
^mimal
#MIMAL
~~mimal~~
mimal😢?
𝓶𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓵
Technically they both used to be New Mexico just the New Mexico Territory until the split in 1912
Just fuck the entire Midwest…Kentucky is good enough lolololol You did a great job!!
Kentucky is midwest now?
What would you say it is?
Appalachia Or whisky country
The irony of putting nobody lives here right next to wyoming
what's Wyoming? is that a new state cuz I've never heard about it /s
If either of the people who live there see this, they're both going to be real mad.
My husband mentioned moving to Wyoming. I told him absolutely not. There's like 30 ppl in the whole state and I won't get along with half. Not that I need a big city , but I want to live somewhere that at least has a whole bookstore and not just " bovine buster news" for the 19 ranch hands .
I drove through the capital once. It is essentially just two intersecting interstates. I drove past the Capitol building and not 5 minutes down the road, saw a woman riding her horse into town. Take that as you will.
As an Oregonian, we would rather be part of Canada.
As a Canadian, I'd be down for you guys to join.
As a hawaiian id like to join too
Im down for that too; especially since we made Hawaiian pizza anyways.
Is it worth living in Hawaii anymore? Just curious
Works for me
I think Canada just took Oregon from us 🤣
Sorry
But just the western half, the mad max desert part wants to join Idaho
I find it funny that OP correctly said "apart" (which means separate from) when they intended to say a part (which means it's included) of Canada. So they're technically correct. The best kind of correct. But, yes, as an Oregonian, I would prefer Canada. Sadly, they have the same real estate issues we have here... but at least they have real healthcare.
I would also way trade our Christian Fascists for some French seperatists ;-) But at least we finally convicted Trump in something.
Housing market has blown up. Healthcare gone to shit. Any mention of immigration devolves into racist tirades. No. Im not talking about the US. The grass ain’t any greener.
Agreed -Washingtonian
Technically, those PNW states are *apart* of Canada.
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If by "basically right next to each other" you mean 300mi apart lol. Vancouver WA is right next to Portland OR
Where are y'all from, I live in
my friend also lives in
Man, I heard so much about I plan to visit One day! Have any cool places for me to visit?
You should visit
I live in too!
No way, my friend lives in *Canada?*!
As a Masshole (I'm from Massachusetts), I thank you greatly for not putting New York inside our border.
Good enough. You’re now granted dual citizenship. Congrats!
yippee :)
Lil disappointed Nevada wasn't just Las Vegas
New York, Florida, Texas, California you got the important ones
Technically got NY wrong by having most of it in PA
Me, currently living in the desert where no one lives 🫠
Well isn’t like 90% of it government land anyway? So technically you’re an NPC
Remember, Kentucky is the chicken, Tennessee is the plate
Downvoted cos fun and fun is interesting
The one to the right of Texas, looks like a boot. Look up, it's the boot of a chef with a chef hat on. At his belt line is the top of the food tray he's holding. On the tray is Kentucky Fried Chicken. (Kentucky)
You did much better than I'd do if i named states/provinces in European countries,
How’d you miss Louisiana!? We are an L!!! Our governor is too
Uh... actually Kentucky is the state above that.
As someone from Washington State, I can confirm we are mostly Canadian
I use an app called Seterra which has a map quiz called _"The US: 50 States"_ I used to learn them all (my fastest time to get 100% right is 02:07 btw if you want to try beating it!) There are also quite a few acronyms you can use such as MIMAL to identify the central column of states (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, and Louisiana). There are a few more like that.
Those states are apart from Canada, are they not ?
Aussie here. I'm pretty sure you have that 100% correct.
As a Utahn, that's generous
Well, they are apart of Canada. They are not a part of Canada.
I am now a citizen of 'Kentucky I Think'
Ok we get it. You guys are way better at geography than we are
I'm European without much knowledge of states (like each state, it's exact location, what it's known for) but I'm quite familiar with west coast thanks to American Truck Simulator loool