Did you know Missouri and Tennessee border 8 other states?

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I was just casually looking at a map of the contiguous US, always liked to study maps, and found that Missouri and Tennessee are bordered by eight other states…the most of all others. Whaddya know about that.

Kentucky is next, bordered by seven other states.

Nebraska, Idaho, Arkansas and Colorado (of the four-corners region), are each bordered by six others. Curiously, Utah, also of the four four-corners region is bordered by 5, while the other two four-corners states, Arizona and New Mexico, each only border four others, as one would think, and I’m not including the three other states the four-corner states touch at their corners, at which one can stand in all four at the same time (there is a monument there).

The states in the four corners of the US, not the four-corners region of the US, are northeastern Maine, bordering only one state, New Hampshire; southeastern Florida borders only Georgia and Alabama; Washington in the northwest only Idaho and Oregon; and finally California in the western and southern corner of the nation, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. So the corner states respectively border one, two, two and three states.

I’ll add the states clustered together in the mid-south region border each other the most, and the ones at the corners, the least. Little Rhode Island tucked away next to Connecticut and Massachusetts, only touch those two.

That’s it, that’s enough, except the island state Hawaii and the big north state Alaska border no other states, but you can see Russia from Sarah Palin's...never mind.