Re: OT: baloney and cheese

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Mills" <romilly@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: OT: baloney and cheese


> Joe wrote:
> >
> > Well, while we're on states - I don't have a clue about all those square
> > states in western america.
>
> Easy-- there's only two, Wyoming and south of it, Colorado. Colorado in
fact
> appears to be slightly rectangular.  All the others have at least one more
> or less irregular boundary.
>
> As a child, I delighted in putting together a jigsaw puzzle of the US-- 48
> pieces at that time.  An excellent learning tool.  Presumably other
> countries/regions could have such things too.  The provinces of Colombia?
Well, I have seen a few jigsaw puzzles with the subdivisions of Colombia (by
then: departments, intendencies and comisaries, now: all of them are
departments).  Well, I will not ask anybody in the list to locate all of
them, of course, nor even to know in which department Bogota is.

> The shires of England??  (Hmm-- maybe someone should make a jigsaw puzzle
of
> Ill Bethisad.....)
>
> Extra points:  which state (or states) is/are bordered by the greatest
> number of other states?
China?

Well, I guess you mean US States...  Hmmm...  Texas has Louisiana,
Mississippi, Oklahoma, New Mexico... not sure if Colorado, Arkansas or
Tennessee, and there are a couple of Mexican States too.  NY has Mass,
Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ontario...  or is it Quebec?  Ohio has
Pa, WV, Ky, Indiana and Michigan.  There should be someone with over 5 US
states ...

Well, Boyacá limits with Cundinamarca, Casanare, Arauca, Norte de Santander,
Santander, Antioquia and Caldas, plus Tachira in Venezuela.

-- Carlos Th

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