Re: OT: baloney and cheese

It's just that most of them look square from a distance.  Give me more
states like Idaho, and less like New Mexico.

I'd guess, before looking at a map, that states with a lot of border states
would be like Oklahoma or Ohio (you know, seriously offset from other states
on one or more borders) or like West Virginia (carved out of another state).
But my favorite website on such matters (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/)
makes Kentucky and Tennessee look like real contenders (Kentucky has borders
with Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, and
Indiana; Tennessee has borders with Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri).  Idaho looks good
with Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, as do a couple
of other states with six states on their borders.  Obviously, Alaska and
Hawaii are out of the running.  So, what's the answer?

(as to jigsaw puzzles... the only one I want is the one made up of Cyrillic
letters that I saw at the Slavic office at Ohio State)

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> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Roger Mills
> 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.
>
>
> Extra points:  which state (or states) is/are bordered by the greatest
> number of other states?
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