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Which state or states of the US, in your opinion, have the weirdest shape? Not necessarily the most unique shape or most recognizable (Texas), but jus an odd shape in general.
My pick is Maryland.
The state has always looked weird to me on a map. Maybe it's because, to me, it looks like the states surrounding Maryland (WV, VA, PA, DE) were drawn first and the leftover land was just made a state (I know it didn't happen that way lol).
Another thing about MD that looks weird? The 1.83 mile section between the MD/PA border and the MD/WV border. Don't get me wrong, MD is great, just shaped weird IMHO.
West Virginia has a pretty unusual shape too. It extends farther north than Pittsburgh, farther south than Richmond, almost as far east as Rochester, and almost as far west as Columbus. It has two "panhandles" as well.
Maryland should've gotten Virginia's eastern shore, that whole peninsula is just weird.
Other than Maryland, West Virginia and Michigan.
Or just unite Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC into a 'Capitol Region' state of 16,940,527 people in 73,296 square miles of land. It would still barely crack the Top 20 states by area.
Do the same for New England. 62,688 square miles and 14,735,525 people.
Give Delaware and Southern Jersey to Pennsylvania. Give the rest to New York.
Merge states together so that no state has less than <10 million people and aim for 25 states.
A lot of the funky shapes in Maryland/WV are historical in nature and there's no reason they should still remain valid. West Virginia wanted Harpers Ferry because it wanted a piece of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and didn't want Virginia to have a piece of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
None of those have been valid for 100+ years. So why should WV still have these weird appendages?
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