Drew but 7/27/25 GA ➡️ RepriseOkay this is messing with my head.
Arkansas borders 6 states and it's possible to travel south to enter all of them.
Dave (nkL⭕ttery)@drewphish that's damn good trivia
Mark Dominus@drewphish Excellent, thanks!
There are towns in Connecticut from which if, you travel due north, due south, due east, or due west, you will be in New York when you cross the border.
skategoat 🐐 🇵🇸
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs@felipe @drewphish This table looks hella unstable but somehow it's probably not
Riley S. Faelan
John Sandwolf@felipe @drewphish Okay, that is just freak'n weird-wild! My brain for a few seconds, couldn't grasp what I was seeing, because it looked physically impossible.
C.Suthorn 
A table that was rejected by the Escher College of design?
neddyo@drewphish I hope you like hiking thru mountains.
haliphax 👾@drewphish Ah, the good ol' boot heel
deepakNow I want to know how universal this is. Wisconsin borders 4 states and it's possible to travel south to enter all 4. Illinois borders 5 states and only Wisconsin is inaccessible going south. But you can reach all 5 going north!
@drewphish
Missouri can go south to enter all of its 8 bordering states. Surprisingly Oklahoma is challenging and I think you have to go through Arkansas where the border has a gentle slope. But I can't tell which way the Oklahoma Missouri border itself slants. Iowa can be entered directly at a few points where the des moines river meanders
Missouri can go south to enter all of its 8 bordering states. Surprisingly Oklahoma is challenging and I think you have to go through Arkansas where the border has a gentle slope. But I can't tell which way the Oklahoma Missouri border itself slants. Iowa can be entered directly at a few points where the des moines river meanders
OtterSparx | ΘΔ 🦦 | ☀️🌒 | 🔜 FWA@drewphish Ah, the power of non-convex polygons.
Evdude@drewphish I can't stop thinking about this.
Mike Says No@drewphish just not to get an abortion.
Kaiyalai@drewphish devious cartography.
Derick Rethans@drewphish one for your geo weirdness @freyfogle
Ezra Brooks@drewphish This is wild! Especially the Oklahoma border, which is unexpected. There's a similar situation in Detroit, you are going South when you cross the river into Canada.
Tennessee as well can get to every neighbouring state by going directly south
Tom@drewphish From Arkansas, you can go to Louisiana only by travelling south (because the border is defined as latitude thirty-three degrees north), but to the six other states in any directions (thanks to the border following rivers).
buwel@drewphish never mind the pronunciation of that word 😄
Colin Beveridge@drewphish @RealityMinus3 Of course you know that Greenland is west of Iceland. But also north, east and south. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7qlw90/greenland_is_farther_east_west_north_and_south/ (I think the same might be true of England and Wales.)
Comrade Weez@drewphish good news! it's easy to get out of that awful place.
Russ@drewphish thanks! My wife now has to clean the kitchen for a month!
ShawstinAu
Major Hayden 🤠@drewphish I never Arkansas that until now
Tom Walsh@drewphish My favorite US geography factoid is: if you travel directly in a cardinal direction from Greenwich Connecticut, the next state you reach will always be New York, regardless of which direction you pick.
DopeGhoti@drewphish
"Arkansas: It's all downhill from here!"
"Arkansas: It's all downhill from here!"
Elias Mårtenson@drewphish Easiest way to un-mess it: Consider Lesotho. No matter what direction you travel from it, you'll enter South Africa.
Maria The Martian 
Chloé Raccoon@drewphish @patterfloof does that mess with heads more then going south from Detroit into Canada?
Harry Wood@drewphish Next you have to find a nice North-South oriented road to cross each border on, and then go make thrilling travel documentary!
Bernd Petrovitsch🔴🔴🔴♂️🏳️🌈🇦🇹🇪🇺@drewphish hmm, one for @TerribleMaps ?
Sam Adeleine@drewphish Works with Maryland too: Maryland borders Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and D.C., and you can drive NORTH from Maryland into all of them.
What a fun game! :)
#maryland
Luna Ko@drewphish Yet another reason the states are fucking stupid. So many borders don't make sense like it's five if they follow like a river or something, but this like doesn't even properly follow the river that it's supposed to. It's BS.
Thomas@drewphish that's actually more common than one would assume. Austria (my home) has 8 neighbors and you can travel south to all of them. I had no idea about that until I looked it up because of your toot.
Solarbird 
@drewphish It's easy to go north or south from Washington State into Idaho. (Going south there's even a bridge!) It's easy to go east or west from Washington State into Oregon, obviously. It is also just barely possible to go _north_ from Washington State into Oregon _on land_.
But as far as I can tell, there's no way to go west from Washington State into Idaho. The rivers! They failed me!
@drewphish (There are a couple of places you can go north from Washington State into Oregon by water. Those count too, _I guess_, but.)
@drewphish (Thanks to the islands and Point Roberts, it's trivial to go north, south, west, or east to British Columbia, Canada, too.)
Locke@drewphish Erinnert mich an die Beschreibung der Lage von Sonneberg zu DDR-Zeien: "Im Westen, im Süden und im Osten, da ist Westen; nur im Norden, da ist Osten."
James Helferty@drewphish Sounds like the basis for an increasingly ridiculous 6-verse country song where each verse talks about someone in a bordering state, and the chorus is about heading north to Arkansas.
Chris Bohn@drewphish
*cries in four-coloring problem*
*cries in four-coloring problem*
Kevin Karhan 
@drewphish also none of it's neighbours have a southernmost point more to the north than it's northernmost point...
Josh Bruce@drewphish @Girgias: Interesting. Another one I find interesting is there’s no way to go from Missouri to Kentucky by street (only ferry).
Instead, you can cross from Missouri to Illinois, drive less than 1 mile, then cross from Illinois to Kentucky.