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Iowa is the only state in the US where it's Eastern & Western borders are completely water. The Mississipi rivers runs along the East border, and the Western border is split between the Missouri river (southern half) and the Sioux river (Northern half).
Luxembourg City is the only place as far as I know where people make daily commutes from 4 different countries: Luxembourg, France, Germany and Belgium. A few come from the Netherlands as well.
Singapore, San Marino & Vatican City are the only 3 countries who's capital city is the only official city in the country.
Iowa is the only state in the US where it's Eastern & Western borders are completely water. The Mississipi rivers runs along the East border, and the Western border is split between the Missouri river (southern half) and the Sioux river (Northern half).
Depends on your definition of "water"--only rivers? Otherwise, New Jersey's eastern (Hudson River, various bays, Atlantic Ocean) and western (Delaware River) borders are also water-bounded.
In Connecticut there is a Fairfield and New fairfield, a Canaan and New Canaan and a Milford and New Milford.
None of those city pairs are next to each other and only Fairfield and New Fairfield are both in the same county, ironically called.....Fairfield county!
Speaking of Fairfield County, of all the counties in CT named after cities, Fairfield county is the only county where the city it's named for isn't in the top 5 of most populous cities. Fairfield is the 6th most populous city in Fairfield county after Bridgeport, Stamford, Norwalk, Danbury and Greenwich. New Fairfield is 19th out of 26 towns in Fairfield county in terms of total population.
Not counting the islands Nova Scotia and Hawaii, Iqaluit, Nunavit is the only capital on mainland North America that has no direct road access to any of the other capitals. If you include the vehichular ferries from Newfoundland to Nova Scotia and Alaskan route 7 to Juneau, one could drive from St. John's Newfoundland to Juneau Alaska and visit every capital city in Canada and the US with the exception of Iqaluit.
There are eight states whose closest significant town to the geographic center is the state capital. The closest is Trenton, only 3 miles from the state's geographic center. In proportion to size, the two most centrally located capitals are Pierre and Oklahoma City, 8 miles from the geographic center. Tallahassee was established as the Florida capital because it was the midpoint of the trail from Pensacola to Jacksonville, at a time when peninsular Florida was virtually uninhabited.
Actually, I can 't seem to verify the center of NJ. Three different sites give three different sets of coordinates. They seem to agree that it is 3 or 5 miles SE of Trenton, but none of the given coordinates are within five miles of that position. One set of coordinates puts it at a location in NW Trenton, about a mile from the state line. If that is correct, and if NJ were to acquire the Delaware exclave on the east side of the Delaware River, the geographic center of NJ might move to Pennsylvania.
Does anybody know a site where you can enter latitude and longitude and get a pinpoint map of that location? The only one I can find, which requires decimal notation, is at http://classic.wunderground.com/calculators/solar.html
There are eight states whose closest significant town to the geographic center is the state capital. The closest is Trenton, only 3 miles from the state's geographic center. In proportion to size, the two most centrally located capitals are Pierre and Oklahoma City, 8 miles from the geographic center. Tallahassee was established as the Florida capital because it was the midpoint of the trail from Pensacola to Jacksonville, at a time when peninsular Florida was virtually uninhabited.
Actually, I can 't seem to verify the center of NJ. Three different sites give three different sets of coordinates. They seem to agree that it is 3 or 5 miles SE of Trenton, but none of the given coordinates are within five miles of that position. One set of coordinates puts it at a location in NW Trenton, about a mile from the state line. If that is correct, and if NJ were to acquire the Delaware exclave on the east side of the Delaware River, the geographic center of NJ might move to Pennsylvania.
Does anybody know a site where you can enter latitude and longitude and get a pinpoint map of that location? The only one I can find, which requires decimal notation, is at Solar Calculator : Weather Underground
Those coordinates are for the city of Trenton (in a rather rundown looking neighborhood on Allen St. just off Broad), not the geographic center of NJ. Two sources that purport to list the geographic centers of all states both say it is "5 miles southeast of Trenton" but give different coordinates as 40°4.2'N 74°33.5'W and 40°08′23.1″N 74°22′34.5″W, which are about 7 miles apart, and both quite a bit more than five miles east of even the city limits of Trenton.
Maybe the biggest "oddity of geography" of all is that, in 2013, the geographic center of New Jersey cannot be known within a five mile margin of error.
The smallest Microplolitan Statistical Area in the USA is Tallulah, in northeast Louisiana, with a population of 12,093. Thelargest is Seaford, Delaware, with 193,245. To qualify under the definition of a μSA, the area must be anchored by a city with a population between 10,000 and 50,000.
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