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Nebraska is the only triply-landlocked US state. Meaning that all of the states that border Nebraska are doubly-landlocked.
If you don't factor in Great Lake states or Canadian provinces, Minnesota is state that you would have to drive through the most amount of states to get to the ocean/sea.
For being a Midwestern state, Missouri sits pretty far south. For example, Caruthersville MO down in the southern bootheel is almost exactly the same latitude as Elizabeth City NC and Winston Salem NC! Also, Kansas City, which is the northernmost city of 100,000 or more in Missouri, is further south than Baltimore MD and almost the same latitude as Washington DC
For being a Midwestern state, Missouri sits pretty far south. For example, Caruthersville MO down in the southern bootheel is almost exactly the same latitude as Elizabeth City NC and Winston Salem NC! Also, Kansas City, which is the northernmost city of 100,000 or more in Missouri, is further south than Baltimore MD and almost the same latitude as Washington DC
There would be alot more people debating whether Missouri is a Midwestern state or a southern state if it didn't stretch 50 miles farther north than Kansas. The Missouri-Nebraska border is also one of the most easily forgotten borders in the country.
There would be alot more people debating whether Missouri is a Midwestern state or a southern state if it didn't stretch 50 miles farther north than Kansas. The Missouri-Nebraska border is also one of the most easily forgotten borders in the country.
Even if the northern tier does technically poke North of the 40th parallel, hardly anyone lives in that sector closest to the Iowa border, so a majority of this state does have pretty strong Southern influences. Where I live, most people talk with a somewhat Southern accent, there's really no traditional Midwest sound around here at all from what I can tell.
Even if the northern tier does technically poke North of the 40th parallel, hardly anyone lives in that sector closest to the Iowa border, so a majority of this state does have pretty strong Southern influences. Where I live, most people talk with a somewhat Southern accent, there's really no traditional Midwest sound around here at all from what I can tell.
Thank you informing me on where the 40th parallel is, because it's a coincidence there's also regional differences between both sides of that line in both the eastern US and western US (northern-southern and northwestern-southwestern).
The “landlocked” definition is based on a state having/not having an ocean shore, not lakes.
I'm not sure where you got that definition from. I believe the correct definition of landlocked is to be entirely surrounded by land and having no coastline or seaport. It's hard to imagine how any of the Great Lakes states could be considered landlocked. They are not entirely surrounded by land and they all have seaports. The Port of Duluth-Superior is one of the top 30 largest ports in the US.
If you don't factor in Great Lake states or Canadian provinces, Minnesota is state that you would have to drive through the most amount of states to get to the ocean/sea.
Minnesota is tied with Wisconsin
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