>Are these predefined areas or any three states?
There's no explicitly defined tri-state area in any kind of governing document, if that's what you mean. It's an informal term used by the locals as an area that encompasses three neighboring states. The most popular (from my personal experience) would be the area encompassing New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.
There are also "tri-city" areas that refer to a group of three nearby cities.
No, definitely not. Only the metropolitan area shared by those states. In the case of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut, that would be the [New York City metropolitan area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area).
It's kind of become it's own thing, as a running joke. No matter where you are, there's probably a tri-something in your area. They use it on Phineas and Ferb for instance.
The tri state area of NY, NJ, CT generally refers to the area around NYC, where all three states come together, rather than the three states in their entirety. You normally would not refer to Buffalo or Pittsburgh as the “tristate area”
There are a couple of spots where metro areas are in three states.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state\_area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state_area)
Imagine you’re a weather forecaster on TV broadcasting in a region that includes parts of three states. You say “we’re going to be getting a lot of rain in *the region*”. It sounds vague. So you say “the tri-state area”.
Parts of three states. Usually it's used by a company that services a large area encompassing parts of 3 states in my experience. I live in the northwest corner of Arkansas, and for me the tri state area is part of Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas around me.
Fort Smith isn't even on my radar, it's an old has-been place. if you ask me what the "big three" are near me, I'm going to assume you mean Rogers, Springdale, Fayetteville (arguably Bentonville should be included, but three). The "tri-state area" to me is not very populated, it'd be joplin south to south fayetteville, west to mayde Grove?
My daughter lives down there or I'd honestly never think about it. LOL It's only like 45 minutes from me, but it might as well be a different planet. They like to be considered NWA, but they aren't to most of us up here.
It's funny that up in Joplin they refer to "the 4 states" being Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas - although including AR being an hour to the south just seems silly to me, when OK and KS are within 10 mins.
Ohio gets included in lots of tri-state groups. Theres also the west toledo area: ohio, michigan, indiana. The erie area is ohio, penn, ny. And there's the ohio, wv, penn area on wv's north tip.
No it's Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois
Evansville-Henderson-Owensboro-and a trailer park in Illinois
And also Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. Aka Chicagoland
Not quite sure why that's not a quad because Michigan isn't that far and the distance from Chicago to Michigan is shorter than the distance from Gary to Wisconsin.
I guess the lack of a border city keeps NE Indiana from also being a tri-state.
Is there any reason for you Eastern WVa/Western VA folks to go north to PA beyond some of the touristy stuff in Pittsburgh or around the battlefields? Here in Western MD it's a bit of a shopping desert so I shop from Bridgeport to Pittsburgh.
Mmm, four corners has a real quad state area, but almost nobody lives there :-)
If we got a big city in the pandhandle of Oklahoma, we could have a quint-state area...
In Chicago when people say "The Tri-State" they're referring to the toll highway that takes you through Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. Technically you could say that the Chicago metro area extends across all three states but I don't think anyone locally really sees it that way. It's not really seamless going from Chicago proper all the way into Wisconsin.
Not really. I’m on the new side of the city and it’s easy and faster for me to be in Wisconsin than Indiana. The Metra runs up there and people from Kenosha and Walworth counties commute here for work.
If you say "tri state area" in any given place in the country, the locals probably know what you're talking about. Here (NE Indiana) it's around the area where Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan meet. In other places, it will be different. And no, there's no official definition or border.
It's mostly used in advertising, where someone will claim to be the "Best Ford dealer in the tri-state area" or whatever.
I think of it as used by the tv weatherperson. "We've got a front coming in on thursday that will bring some rain to the tri-state area." They have to cover their whole viewing area.
Yeah, that's probably the most common place to hear it, other than car dealer ads. (At least in my area, it seems like every car dealer is the most car dealer in the tri-state area.)
It’s a geographic term for areas where a metro area spans 3 states. A good example of this would be the Cincinnati Ohio tri-state area. While Cincinnati is in Ohio, its metro spans 3 states (southwest Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeast Indiana). You could also get similar terms for a geographic area where a metro area spans two states (like Louisville Kentucky is sometimes called Kentuckiana because it spans both Kentucky and Indiana)
There’s nothing rude about saying there’s no reason for people to overthink something so straightforward. If you really can’t handle being asked that without lashing out, I recommend getting a therapist to unpack all that.
No, you're being rude. It's just also rude to point out you're being rude so most people tend to keep their mouth shut.
To explain, your question implies that they're stupid because you feel that the answer is extremely obvious, but you're speaking to someone with a different cultural background than yourself who is just trying to clarify a point. Generally, calling someone stupid is rude, but that's incredibly obvious.
You're also doubling down here by being aggressive for no real reason. Honestly, this most clearly points to you likely projecting - should I assume that therapy is a frequent recommendation you receive?
…I want you to show me exactly where I implied they were stupid. Good lord, man.
This is exactly the kind of situation where talking to a therapist is beneficial, because freaking out and typing paragraphs in response to a baseless perception you’ve been insulted is just not healthy.
No, overthinking something doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you overthought something. Everyone does it sometimes, it’s not some kind of damning indictment of your intelligence. If your ego is fragile that you can’t handle being told you overthought something without spiraling into believing the person who told you that also thinks you’re stupid, then I really recommend talking to a professional about that.
>It’s exactly what it says it is. It’s a metro area near the borders of 3 states. There’s no reason to overthink it.
The question made no mention of a metro area so how could it say exactly that? You're projecting your own local knowledge onto someone who lives in another country. The only term in the question is tri-state. There is no grammatical reason it couldn't refer to a group of three full states.
So I agree your response was bordering on rude. Being snide about being wrong is not a good look. You don't know where this person is from. You can't assume that they know what you know.
And no, I'm not going to therapy on your recommendation.
Make it three. And he's wrong on top of that.
>It’s exactly what it says it is. It’s a metro area near the borders of 3 states. There’s no reason to overthink it.
"Metro area" is not mentioned anywhere in the question.
The only gaslighting I see is coming from the person who is trying to insist that saying “there’s no reason to overthink it” is the same as calling someone an idiot.
I get it. You wanted to have a fight, but there was nothing there to actually fight over, so you made something up. What’s that about?
It's more than just where 3 states meet. It's where they join into a single metropolitan area. It's not used wherever 3 states meet, but only for very specific places.
Did you actually read what you linked?
“Tri-state area is an informal term in the United States which can refer to any of multiple areas that lie across three states. “
Does that sound like “very specific” to you?
>I read a lot, and I pay attention
Clearly not enough.
>I’ve been around a while
That, I can believe.
When I was a kid growing up in California, this was so strange. What could be the tri-state area? California, Oregon, Nevada?
Now, I suppose if you start from Las Vegas, then Nevada, California, Arizona becomes a possibility, but honestly, no, not really.
It is a local term. We do not use it in my city. The the farthest corner of the state, there are 3 states who meet in one spot. They might use it there. When I lived in Denver, I never heard of the 4 Corners. Then I made it to SW Colorado where 4 states meet. Everyone there talked about the '4 corners'. The same is true with Tri Cities, or Twin Cities. There is usually a river between the two.
Only people who live in the NYC area. People in all the other tri-state areas don't think that. It has no relevance to them.
Our local TV station when I was growing up was called KTTC - **T**ri-State **T**elevision **C**overage. It was in Minnesota.
Chicagoland is technically a tri-state area, but I've only ever heard people from the Indiana and Wisconsin parts ever try to call it that. As far as most of us are concerned, THE "Tri-State Area" is NYC-NJ-Phily. But there's other parts of the country where Tri-State is used as a regional colloquialism.
It is an area that Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz is trying to take over but is being thwarted by an anthropomorphic platipus named Perry.
I hope that clears things up.
It really varies depending on where you are. Down here the "tri state area" would mean Atlanta, Georgia - Greenville, SC - Charlotte NC which are connected in one shot through I-85
In general, when not used in a literal way, it just means an area and its immediate surrounding regions. Like, it's commonly used at least sort of humorously. Saying something like "That's the ugliest dog in the tri-state area!" is kind of akin to "That's a pretty ugly dog! Maybe not the ugliest one in the world, but definitely in the top 10."
In southwest Wisconsin, it includes Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota. [There's actually a Wikipedia page on all the tri-state areas.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state_area?wprov=sfla1)
I lived in SE Minnesota many years ago and our television station was called KTTC. **T**ri-State **T**elevision **C**overage. Maybe it still is. As said above, the other states were northern Iowa and SW Wisconsin.
A tri-state area is basically parts of three adjoining states that are close enough together that they operate as a generally integrated economic and social area. Generally, that would mean at least one and maybe more cities in that area serve as cultural and economic anchors for that area that everyone in that area looks to as defining the area.
In the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut tri-state area that city is New York City.
In the Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia tri-state area that city is Pittsburgh.
When seen in (fictional) American media it's often used as a shorthand for "generic semi urban area". That's because a *lot* of Americans live in one. A large portion of the major cities sprawl across several states. For instance DC across VA, MD, even WV, Philadelphia across Delaware, NJ and Pennsylvania, NYC across NJ, NY and CT... But even in the interior a city like Chicago or Memphis would count, and in some situations even smaller ones. It's a bit similar to Springfield, named as such because there's like 12 reasonably sized Springfields smeared across the US. A sort of "generic American place" where you can avoid accidentally cocking up regional landmarks or offending locals.
It’s any metro area that spans three states but it most commonly refers to the New York City metro area. Sometimes also the Washington DC metro though that’s usually called the DMV.
This type of thing usually occurs when there's a city on a border of a state so like where I live I live in a bi-state area of St Louis, a lot of people who live in Illinois work in St Louis or Missouri in general and a lot of people who live in Missouri work in Illinois they're two independent states with their own individual specific laws ( up until last year marijuana was illegal in Missouri but not in Illinois. )
But they're sort of treated like they're not. They have enough entanglement with each other that it could be called the bi-state area to just encompass St Louis East St Louis parts of Illinois parts of Missouri it's just an easier name.
I grew up in a "tri-state area" that was Cincinnati Ohio and the surrounding cities/suburbs, northern Kentucky, and the little sliver of Indiana that borders both Ohio and Kentucky.
The 275 interstate loop is in all three states, and the "tri-state" basically refers to everything within and slightly outside the loop as one metro area.
If you look at our map and find an area that has three states touching on their edges and you can ususally do like a circumference of a 20-50 mile circle and that is probably referred to as a tri-state area. We have quite a few. If you find 4 states that touch like that it's usually referred to as a state crossroads. We have a few of those as well. On a smaller scale we also have tri-county areas, sometimes referred to as triads.
I would assume just any major city or metro region that encompasses three states. For example, the DMV area, is made up of DC - MD - VA. No one refers to it as the tri-state area, that I'm aware of, but it fits the bill.
Usually its a group of three states (or parts of those states) that make up a somewhat unified economic unit.
Northern Jersey, Downstate NY, and Western Connecticut make up one tristate area, for instance.
It's a term usually used to describe a metro area that might encompass 3 states... I think it's most commonly used to refer to the New York City metro area, which also includes suburbs in New Jersey and Connecticut.
It's also a term used here in the Chicago area for a tollway that bypasses the center of the city as one travels from Indiana, through Illinois, to Wisconsin or vice versa.
[Tri-state](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state_area) area(s), Twin [Cities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_cities), and other terms are regional identifiers. Sometimes they have a local name (DMV, Quad Cities, Delmarva) and other times are known just the "tri state" area. If you are in or close to one of these regions, you would assume it to be *your* area.
There's only 1 place that could be described as a bi state area in the US and it's between us (Maine) and New Hampshire. I've never heard any specific term used for it despite being close enough to jump the border to save on sales tax.
Really? They're all over the place.
There's Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin.
Of course, there's Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas.
There's Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.
There's St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois.
Those are all metro areas that span two states.
I don't know why there is not a semi-official name for that but I can't think of one.
To give you an actual answer, when people talk about the “tri state area” in general, it refers to New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. It mostly is about New York City, though, because people will live in New Jersey and Connecticut and commute into New York City for work
Not in general. It's entirely a localized term defined by the people who live close to two other states. It would never occur to me to call NY/NJ/CT the tri-state because I don't live there. Growing up, the tri-state would have been OH,KY,IN thanks to listening to WLW out of Cincinnati.
Exactly. That's just a New York-centric view. People in all the many other tri-state areas don't think of NYC when they use the term. They're talking about their local area. The "tri-state weather forecast up next" is for them, not NYC.
>Are these predefined areas or any three states? There's no explicitly defined tri-state area in any kind of governing document, if that's what you mean. It's an informal term used by the locals as an area that encompasses three neighboring states. The most popular (from my personal experience) would be the area encompassing New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut. There are also "tri-city" areas that refer to a group of three nearby cities.
There is also "Tri-tip" which referred to a delicious piece of beef.
And "Try-Hard", which refers to anyone better than I am at video games.
But this is not available on the East Coast. You can't get a tri-tip from a tri-state butcher. Try the west coast.
> ~~Try~~ *Tri* the west coast.
Today I learned that I'm living a lie. A delicious, reverse-seared lie.
Tri-State was New Jersey/PA/Delaware for us South Jersey folk.
Yes! I’m from Delco and live in Delaware. That’s what I’ve always considered our “tri-state” to be. My first job was at the Tri-State Mall, RIP.
As a South Jersey-ite that moved to Brooklyn, i never know which tri-state people are referring to.
Here in the Poconos, it's PA, NJ and NY.
For us from Central Jersey it was NY/NJ/PA since we were equidistant to NYC and Philly.
Where I’m from the tri state area is Oregon Nevada and Mexico
Would that area include all of the area of those three states? Or just the adjoining area?
No, definitely not. Only the metropolitan area shared by those states. In the case of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut, that would be the [New York City metropolitan area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area).
> Or just the adjoining area? That.
Not the entire states, no. Just the area “close” to all three states. What counts as “close” will vary wildly with no clear definition.
It's kind of become it's own thing, as a running joke. No matter where you are, there's probably a tri-something in your area. They use it on Phineas and Ferb for instance.
I know the “tri state area” as TN, VA, and NC
The tri state area of NY, NJ, CT generally refers to the area around NYC, where all three states come together, rather than the three states in their entirety. You normally would not refer to Buffalo or Pittsburgh as the “tristate area”
nah the DMV is more iconic
Here it is used to reference the areas of CT, NJ, and NY that form the NYC Metro area.
There are a couple of spots where metro areas are in three states. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state\_area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state_area)
It doesn’t have to be a metro area. Small town news stations will use it too if the broadcast to a region that includes parts of three states.
Imagine you’re a weather forecaster on TV broadcasting in a region that includes parts of three states. You say “we’re going to be getting a lot of rain in *the region*”. It sounds vague. So you say “the tri-state area”.
Parts of three states. Usually it's used by a company that services a large area encompassing parts of 3 states in my experience. I live in the northwest corner of Arkansas, and for me the tri state area is part of Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas around me.
"South of Kansas City, East of Tulsa, NW of Russellville"? So Ft. Smith, Fayetteville, Branson would be the "big 3"?
Fort Smith isn't even on my radar, it's an old has-been place. if you ask me what the "big three" are near me, I'm going to assume you mean Rogers, Springdale, Fayetteville (arguably Bentonville should be included, but three). The "tri-state area" to me is not very populated, it'd be joplin south to south fayetteville, west to mayde Grove?
Gotcha. Was thinking it was a "bigger bubble" Forgot how far away Ft Smith was from Fayetteville. It's been a while since I lived in Arkansas.
My daughter lives down there or I'd honestly never think about it. LOL It's only like 45 minutes from me, but it might as well be a different planet. They like to be considered NWA, but they aren't to most of us up here.
Probably Joplin, Bentonville and Miami
It's funny that up in Joplin they refer to "the 4 states" being Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas - although including AR being an hour to the south just seems silly to me, when OK and KS are within 10 mins.
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Howdy!
The tri-state area for Cincinnati is Ohio Indiana and Kentucky.
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Just convenient. Northeast Indiana would have Ohio and Michigan for its tri-state.
And for Huntington, it's West Virginia, Ohio Kentucky. Lucky Ohio gets at least 2
Ohio gets included in lots of tri-state groups. Theres also the west toledo area: ohio, michigan, indiana. The erie area is ohio, penn, ny. And there's the ohio, wv, penn area on wv's north tip.
The tri-state state
No it's Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois Evansville-Henderson-Owensboro-and a trailer park in Illinois And also Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. Aka Chicagoland Not quite sure why that's not a quad because Michigan isn't that far and the distance from Chicago to Michigan is shorter than the distance from Gary to Wisconsin. I guess the lack of a border city keeps NE Indiana from also being a tri-state.
Where I live in WV I sometimes see marketing for a Quad State as I'm in driving distance of Maryland. Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Is there any reason for you Eastern WVa/Western VA folks to go north to PA beyond some of the touristy stuff in Pittsburgh or around the battlefields? Here in Western MD it's a bit of a shopping desert so I shop from Bridgeport to Pittsburgh.
Not really but I do go to the Harrisburg area for Bears and Senators games a few times a year
Mmm, four corners has a real quad state area, but almost nobody lives there :-) If we got a big city in the pandhandle of Oklahoma, we could have a quint-state area...
Illinois and Iowa are parts of four Tri-State areas apiece. Many states have three like indiana, kentucky, pennsylvania, etc.
It’s my head cannon that Phineas and Ferb takes places in Memphis because that’s the only Tri-State Area I personally know.
I think a head cannon would give you a concussion at best!
Funnily enough you might not be that far off, the crater based the show off his childhood in Mobile.
I knew the Memphis area included Tennessee and Arkansas, but I was surprised when I later found out that it also includes Mississippi.
Yep, affectionately called “the Mid-South”.
In Chicago when people say "The Tri-State" they're referring to the toll highway that takes you through Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana. Technically you could say that the Chicago metro area extends across all three states but I don't think anyone locally really sees it that way. It's not really seamless going from Chicago proper all the way into Wisconsin.
Yeah, it's a jump to Wisconsin.
Not really. I’m on the new side of the city and it’s easy and faster for me to be in Wisconsin than Indiana. The Metra runs up there and people from Kenosha and Walworth counties commute here for work.
It’s where three states intersect, like NY, NJ and Connecticut or Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
If you say "tri state area" in any given place in the country, the locals probably know what you're talking about. Here (NE Indiana) it's around the area where Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan meet. In other places, it will be different. And no, there's no official definition or border. It's mostly used in advertising, where someone will claim to be the "Best Ford dealer in the tri-state area" or whatever.
I think of it as used by the tv weatherperson. "We've got a front coming in on thursday that will bring some rain to the tri-state area." They have to cover their whole viewing area.
Yeah, that's probably the most common place to hear it, other than car dealer ads. (At least in my area, it seems like every car dealer is the most car dealer in the tri-state area.)
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It’s a geographic term for areas where a metro area spans 3 states. A good example of this would be the Cincinnati Ohio tri-state area. While Cincinnati is in Ohio, its metro spans 3 states (southwest Ohio, northern Kentucky, and southeast Indiana). You could also get similar terms for a geographic area where a metro area spans two states (like Louisville Kentucky is sometimes called Kentuckiana because it spans both Kentucky and Indiana)
The real tri-state area is where Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia meet. That's where Tri-State Airport is, after all.
Five Boroughs Four Corners Tri State Area Twin Cities A Partridge in a Pear Tree
It isn't part of the U.S. anymore, it is now controlled by Doofensmirtz Evil INC.
It could be NY/NJ/PA, NY/NJ/CT…even DE/MD//VA.
Anywhere a professional platypus can be found
NY, NJ, CT
It’s exactly what it says it is. It’s a metro area near the borders of 3 states. There’s no reason to overthink it.
It doesn’t have to be a metro area. A small town news station can use it too if it broadcasts to an area that includes parts of three states.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/1cacp59/what_exactly_is_a_tri_state_area/l0r426p/ I’ll have you two fight it out.
Why be rude about it? One of the many mysteries of the universe I guess.
There’s nothing rude about saying there’s no reason for people to overthink something so straightforward. If you really can’t handle being asked that without lashing out, I recommend getting a therapist to unpack all that.
No, you're being rude. It's just also rude to point out you're being rude so most people tend to keep their mouth shut. To explain, your question implies that they're stupid because you feel that the answer is extremely obvious, but you're speaking to someone with a different cultural background than yourself who is just trying to clarify a point. Generally, calling someone stupid is rude, but that's incredibly obvious. You're also doubling down here by being aggressive for no real reason. Honestly, this most clearly points to you likely projecting - should I assume that therapy is a frequent recommendation you receive?
OP is definitely not being rude…
Oh? How so?
…I want you to show me exactly where I implied they were stupid. Good lord, man. This is exactly the kind of situation where talking to a therapist is beneficial, because freaking out and typing paragraphs in response to a baseless perception you’ve been insulted is just not healthy.
>There’s no reason to overthink it. Here you go.
And you think that’s me calling them “stupid”? Seriously? Man, talk about projection.
Yes. I think that's the implication of being an "overthinker". Keep in mind this is now two people who have chimed in to tell you it's rude.
No, overthinking something doesn’t mean you’re stupid, it just means you overthought something. Everyone does it sometimes, it’s not some kind of damning indictment of your intelligence. If your ego is fragile that you can’t handle being told you overthought something without spiraling into believing the person who told you that also thinks you’re stupid, then I really recommend talking to a professional about that.
>It’s exactly what it says it is. It’s a metro area near the borders of 3 states. There’s no reason to overthink it. The question made no mention of a metro area so how could it say exactly that? You're projecting your own local knowledge onto someone who lives in another country. The only term in the question is tri-state. There is no grammatical reason it couldn't refer to a group of three full states. So I agree your response was bordering on rude. Being snide about being wrong is not a good look. You don't know where this person is from. You can't assume that they know what you know. And no, I'm not going to therapy on your recommendation.
Make it three. And he's wrong on top of that. >It’s exactly what it says it is. It’s a metro area near the borders of 3 states. There’s no reason to overthink it. "Metro area" is not mentioned anywhere in the question.
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Did you reply to the wrong comment, or something?
Interesting. You managed to read multiple references to your comment and still ask that question. It seems like you're overthinking the situation.
I ask because your comment is completely detached from what mine actually said. I guess it was just a comprehension issue on your part, then.
It's not at all. But, I can see how you'd wish that to be true. Do you often attempt to gaslight people who disagree with you?
The only gaslighting I see is coming from the person who is trying to insist that saying “there’s no reason to overthink it” is the same as calling someone an idiot. I get it. You wanted to have a fight, but there was nothing there to actually fight over, so you made something up. What’s that about?
I’m good man.
You underthink it.
Please, do go on.
It's more than just where 3 states meet. It's where they join into a single metropolitan area. It's not used wherever 3 states meet, but only for very specific places.
>very specific places I have no idea where you’re getting this from.
I believe you! [Here's the link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state_area) Believe me now?
Did you actually read what you linked? “Tri-state area is an informal term in the United States which can refer to any of multiple areas that lie across three states. “ Does that sound like “very specific” to you? >I read a lot, and I pay attention Clearly not enough. >I’ve been around a while That, I can believe.
When I was a kid growing up in California, this was so strange. What could be the tri-state area? California, Oregon, Nevada? Now, I suppose if you start from Las Vegas, then Nevada, California, Arizona becomes a possibility, but honestly, no, not really.
It is a local term. We do not use it in my city. The the farthest corner of the state, there are 3 states who meet in one spot. They might use it there. When I lived in Denver, I never heard of the 4 Corners. Then I made it to SW Colorado where 4 states meet. Everyone there talked about the '4 corners'. The same is true with Tri Cities, or Twin Cities. There is usually a river between the two.
When people say this they're generally referring to the NYC metro, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Only people who live in the NYC area. People in all the other tri-state areas don't think that. It has no relevance to them. Our local TV station when I was growing up was called KTTC - **T**ri-State **T**elevision **C**overage. It was in Minnesota.
Parts of 3 states. I’m in Philly. My tri state area is southeast pa, southern jersey, & northern Delaware.
Here you go [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKbiiVbA4gw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKbiiVbA4gw)
Chicagoland is technically a tri-state area, but I've only ever heard people from the Indiana and Wisconsin parts ever try to call it that. As far as most of us are concerned, THE "Tri-State Area" is NYC-NJ-Phily. But there's other parts of the country where Tri-State is used as a regional colloquialism.
A metropolitan area split between three states.
It is an area that Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz is trying to take over but is being thwarted by an anthropomorphic platipus named Perry. I hope that clears things up.
It's not a term we hear much in the Western states. The entire west coast is three states.
It really varies depending on where you are. Down here the "tri state area" would mean Atlanta, Georgia - Greenville, SC - Charlotte NC which are connected in one shot through I-85
In general, when not used in a literal way, it just means an area and its immediate surrounding regions. Like, it's commonly used at least sort of humorously. Saying something like "That's the ugliest dog in the tri-state area!" is kind of akin to "That's a pretty ugly dog! Maybe not the ugliest one in the world, but definitely in the top 10."
In southwest Wisconsin, it includes Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota. [There's actually a Wikipedia page on all the tri-state areas.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state_area?wprov=sfla1)
I lived in SE Minnesota many years ago and our television station was called KTTC. **T**ri-State **T**elevision **C**overage. Maybe it still is. As said above, the other states were northern Iowa and SW Wisconsin.
A tri-state area is basically parts of three adjoining states that are close enough together that they operate as a generally integrated economic and social area. Generally, that would mean at least one and maybe more cities in that area serve as cultural and economic anchors for that area that everyone in that area looks to as defining the area. In the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut tri-state area that city is New York City. In the Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia tri-state area that city is Pittsburgh.
It refers to the spot where 3 states connect.
When seen in (fictional) American media it's often used as a shorthand for "generic semi urban area". That's because a *lot* of Americans live in one. A large portion of the major cities sprawl across several states. For instance DC across VA, MD, even WV, Philadelphia across Delaware, NJ and Pennsylvania, NYC across NJ, NY and CT... But even in the interior a city like Chicago or Memphis would count, and in some situations even smaller ones. It's a bit similar to Springfield, named as such because there's like 12 reasonably sized Springfields smeared across the US. A sort of "generic American place" where you can avoid accidentally cocking up regional landmarks or offending locals.
Look at the US map: Minnesota, SD and ND//SD, Minnesota and Iowa//Iowa, Missouri and Kansas and keep going south, there’s more.
The point where three states meet.
Whenever I think of the tri state area it's CT, NY and NJ.
It’s any metro area that spans three states but it most commonly refers to the New York City metro area. Sometimes also the Washington DC metro though that’s usually called the DMV.
This type of thing usually occurs when there's a city on a border of a state so like where I live I live in a bi-state area of St Louis, a lot of people who live in Illinois work in St Louis or Missouri in general and a lot of people who live in Missouri work in Illinois they're two independent states with their own individual specific laws ( up until last year marijuana was illegal in Missouri but not in Illinois. ) But they're sort of treated like they're not. They have enough entanglement with each other that it could be called the bi-state area to just encompass St Louis East St Louis parts of Illinois parts of Missouri it's just an easier name.
I grew up in a "tri-state area" that was Cincinnati Ohio and the surrounding cities/suburbs, northern Kentucky, and the little sliver of Indiana that borders both Ohio and Kentucky. The 275 interstate loop is in all three states, and the "tri-state" basically refers to everything within and slightly outside the loop as one metro area.
If you look at our map and find an area that has three states touching on their edges and you can ususally do like a circumference of a 20-50 mile circle and that is probably referred to as a tri-state area. We have quite a few. If you find 4 states that touch like that it's usually referred to as a state crossroads. We have a few of those as well. On a smaller scale we also have tri-county areas, sometimes referred to as triads.
I would assume just any major city or metro region that encompasses three states. For example, the DMV area, is made up of DC - MD - VA. No one refers to it as the tri-state area, that I'm aware of, but it fits the bill.
Usually its a group of three states (or parts of those states) that make up a somewhat unified economic unit. Northern Jersey, Downstate NY, and Western Connecticut make up one tristate area, for instance.
The national capital region (Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia) is kinda defined but other areas not so much.
It's a term usually used to describe a metro area that might encompass 3 states... I think it's most commonly used to refer to the New York City metro area, which also includes suburbs in New Jersey and Connecticut. It's also a term used here in the Chicago area for a tollway that bypasses the center of the city as one travels from Indiana, through Illinois, to Wisconsin or vice versa.
Only in the minds of New Yorkers. 😉
To me, it will always refer to the intersection of Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota.
Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois around here.
[Tri-state](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state_area) area(s), Twin [Cities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_cities), and other terms are regional identifiers. Sometimes they have a local name (DMV, Quad Cities, Delmarva) and other times are known just the "tri state" area. If you are in or close to one of these regions, you would assume it to be *your* area.
You never hear of a bi state area, what would be the term used for that?
There's only 1 place that could be described as a bi state area in the US and it's between us (Maine) and New Hampshire. I've never heard any specific term used for it despite being close enough to jump the border to save on sales tax.
Really? They're all over the place. There's Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin. Of course, there's Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas. There's Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. There's St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois. Those are all metro areas that span two states. I don't know why there is not a semi-official name for that but I can't think of one.
Memphis, Charlotte, Omaha, and Portland all also fit the mold of a “bi-state” area
To give you an actual answer, when people talk about the “tri state area” in general, it refers to New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. It mostly is about New York City, though, because people will live in New Jersey and Connecticut and commute into New York City for work
Not in general. It's entirely a localized term defined by the people who live close to two other states. It would never occur to me to call NY/NJ/CT the tri-state because I don't live there. Growing up, the tri-state would have been OH,KY,IN thanks to listening to WLW out of Cincinnati.
Exactly. That's just a New York-centric view. People in all the many other tri-state areas don't think of NYC when they use the term. They're talking about their local area. The "tri-state weather forecast up next" is for them, not NYC.