Geography (slaves, state, viking, kings)

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by bobmulk

I live in Oregon and I can say for certainty that there is a divided four lane highway (US Hwy 97) in Deschutes County. It's not entirely divided, but it is in several places for several miles.

But the criteria of the question are that the 4-lane highway would have to extend all the way out to the county line, 35 miles south from Bend, or 30 miles north, which it doesn't.

[Saintmarks]

Originally Posted by bobmulk

I live in Oregon and I can say for certainty that there is a divided four lane highway (US Hwy 97) in Deschutes County. It's not entirely divided, but it is in several places for several miles.

The original question by jtur did preface that the question was based on a study of the Rand McNally Atlas. My 2007 edition shows no divided four lane anywhere in the county. As I have never been there, that is all I had to go by.

[jtur88]

What is the "newest" sovereign, independent country in the world, in the sense that the first human inhabitants arrived the most recently?

[mike0421]

Originally Posted by macmeal

I'd LOVE to hear this...seriously. (do you mean that "no road crosses their common border"....or that "you can't drive from one to the other"?)

I'll guess Minnesota and Michigan.....OR Missouri and Kentucky
Arizona and Colorado......OR Utah and New Mexico....theoretically "touch" each other, but you can't go between either 'pair' without entering a THIRD state....but this doesn't sound like what you meant.

Other than my first answer(s)... (I'm counting on a water border there), I can't imagine the answer.

That is the correct answer. Cairo Illinois is between Missouri and Kentucky with US 62 crossing over the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. It almost looks at the highway goes directly from one state into the next, but a sliver of Illinois is in the way.

I guess I didn't form the question properly. When I meant 'share a border' I meant as a line, not as a single point, as is the case when it comes to the Four Corners. If you look at Missouri's border with Kentucky, it is entirely by the Mississippi River. There are no bridges that cross from one state into the other.

[darstar]

Originally Posted by mike0421

That is the correct answer. Cairo Illinois is between Missouri and Kentucky with US 62 crossing over the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. It almost looks at the highway goes directly from one state into the next, but a sliver of Illinois is in the way.

I guess I didn't form the question properly. When I meant 'share a border' I meant as a line, not as a single point, as is the case when it comes to the Four Corners. If you look at Missouri's border with Kentucky, it is entirely by the Mississippi River. There are no bridges that cross from one state into the other.

The four corners is still the correct answer..based on what you said........maybe not in what you thought..no one knows but you, we are not mind readers.

[jtur88]

Missouri-Kentucky is the logical correct answer, in the conventional sense of the word. The roads from Missouri into Kentucky dead-end in the river bottoms, and do not continue on into Kentucky proper. So, in order to drive from St. Louis to Louisville, it is necessary to pass through a third state. But you can drive from St. Louis to places that are within the state of Kentucky.

A "road" cannot pass from Arizona into Colorado without passing through another state, unless the road has a width of zero, which would not meet any definition of a road.

[mike0421]

Originally Posted by darstar

The four corners is still the correct answer..based on what you said........maybe not in what you thought..no one knows but you, we are not mind readers.

I apologize Darstar for my crappy writing skills. I could have communicated it to you all much better.

[jtur88]

Reposting current question:

What is the "newest" sovereign, independent country in the world, in the sense that the first human inhabitants arrived the most recently?

[Future Trooper]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Reposting current question:

What is the "newest" sovereign, independent country in the world, in the sense that the first human inhabitants arrived the most recently?

Kosovo?

[darstar]

Originally Posted by mike0421

I apologize Darstar for my crappy writing skills. I could have communicated it to you all much better.

accepted thanks.