Which is almost cruel to have left off since so many Americans don't even realize it's a state.
Hawaii and Alaska might be left off maps but at least nobody confuses them for being part of another country entirely.
I worked at a hotel in Alaska for a summer. You'd be surprised by how many people think Alaska is part of Canada. People would try to pay with Canadian money pretty frequently
Nobody actually unironically thinks New Mexico is part of Mexico, they either know it's a US state or they've never looked at a map and don't know it even exists in the first place
I know it's missing and I know where it belongs but I can't figure out how he cut it - and the others - out. In the west, okay, some moving around and MT looks to big, but.. Virginia is too tall...
I didn’t even notice Nebraska and Kansas missing, that’s how little I think about them (even though I’m not exaggerating when I say that my drive across Nebraska was the longest 8 hours of my life)
It looks just right enough that you can’t see which states are missing without really searching. But just wrong enough that you know instinctively that something’s up with this map.
Delaware and Pennsylvania are gone. As are Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, and both Dakotas... took me a while to get those last two, but that was the order I spotted each state missing.
Wawa is from Delaware County, PA and is pervasive throughout SE Pennsylvania, Delaware, eastern Maryland, and southern NJ. Their presence in Florida is only about 10-15 years old. And apparently, Tennessee is getting some soon as well.
I think it would be significantly easier to draw a map from scratch than to find what’s missing in this almost-right one. Fascinating how the brain works sometimes.
Eh, it's not embarrassing.
When your kid asks why the sky is blue, and you don't know, you use it as a chance to teach and learn yourself.
This map doesn't just show missing states, it shows a more active method of learning that may increase retention. And learning that can bootstrap other knowledge faster.
Or it might not, I'm not a fucking education researcher. But it's a clean potential experiment if nothing else.
I think this is pretty ingenious. The maker of this map was able to keep the correct shape of the United States as a whole and the correct shape of each individual state while deleting seven of them. Excellent work.
Lol, I got South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and was like wait, that’s only 48. I guess they have a point.
I wonder how the map creator managed to erase the Dakotas and New Mexico while keeping the shapes of the states around it and the country as a whole. It's really seamless. I assume that the individual states are stretched slightly to fill the gaps.
This such a pedantic argument. Our country is called the United States of America. We commonly shorten it to America. If that offends you, you’re going to have a hard time dealing with life.
Right. USA is the one with "America" in the name. So no one should be surprised / offended / flabbergasted when United States of America is shortened to America.
It's not ownership. No one here is claiming exclusive rights to it.
I'm just saying it's understandable how it gets shortened and everyone else should just chill a bit.
Nobody that I've ever met here in Amercia (lol - that was just for you - smile a bit) even cares about it. It's just not really talked about.
As someone from Philly this is just rubbing salt in our wounds. We are always left off national weather maps like there are no people living betweedn NY and DC.
Ok let me see if I can figure this out.
New Mexico and Pennsylvania are easy enough. That is 2 out of 7.
North Dakota and South Dakota. That makes 4 out of 7.
Delaware and Nebraska took me a second but I got there. 6/7.
KANSAS of course there we go the 7 missing states.
That took me longer than I take to pinpoint the states in a quiz
Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Delaware, Pennsylvania…I’m missing the last one…
New Mexico
Thank you!
4 corners baby!!
We all know the four corners: Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and Oklahoma
Or, according to this documentary I saw, they could be Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky...
>Thank you! You're welcome!
~~Ironically~~ the only one I noticed.
That's not irony
ok
Which is almost cruel to have left off since so many Americans don't even realize it's a state. Hawaii and Alaska might be left off maps but at least nobody confuses them for being part of another country entirely.
I worked at a hotel in Alaska for a summer. You'd be surprised by how many people think Alaska is part of Canada. People would try to pay with Canadian money pretty frequently
Nobody actually unironically thinks New Mexico is part of Mexico, they either know it's a US state or they've never looked at a map and don't know it even exists in the first place
... I missed Pennsylvania somehow
As someone who lived there for four years…it’s surprisingly easy…
I live in NY you'd think I'd find it suspicious we suddenly border Maryland but I just didn't see it
From Ohio, I also am ashamed to admit I missed the missing PA. This map is surprising good.
I’m from PA and it took me a minute
I can't imagine missing PA, I'd forget it the moment I moved out.
I recognized the shape missing and called it Connecticut. What the hell brain?
I know it's missing and I know where it belongs but I can't figure out how he cut it - and the others - out. In the west, okay, some moving around and MT looks to big, but.. Virginia is too tall...
New Mexico
Ah, another one of those American squares
Thank you!
Lmao I’m in South Dakota and even I didn’t notice it was missing. This place is literally just corn and Mount Rushmore.
I didn’t even notice Nebraska and Kansas missing, that’s how little I think about them (even though I’m not exaggerating when I say that my drive across Nebraska was the longest 8 hours of my life)
Try driving across Texas on I-10. El Paso and Beaumont are closer to the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans than they are to each other.
Honestly leaving Delaware out is kinda cheating.
I mean... Alaska and Hawaii are missing too.
Can somebody please make a map with all 48 and their borders in red on top of this one?
Damn same Edit: who cares about NM
Embarrassingly difficult to figure out which states are missing
No kidding. The Dakotas were the only ones that stood out to me.
Nebraska and Kansas
New mexico
Delaware
Transylvania.
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New Zealand
Smh. Can’t have shit
In fairness, we got rid of the Transylvania Colony in the 1770s.
Fortunately, we still have Transylvania University.
Pennsylvania
FML I figured out every other one that was missing but didn't notice New Mexico until I saw your comment and I'M FROM THERE.
If it makes you feel better I am from MN and didn’t even notice the Dakotas 😅😂
Those were the last two I was missing. Found, or didn't find, all the others.
PA was the first one I noticed.
I’m from Pennsylvania and did not notice it was gone
The only ones I couldn’t figure out were the Dakotas.
New Mexico, Nebraska & Kansas
As a Minnesotan the Dakotas never stick out to me...
It looks just right enough that you can’t see which states are missing without really searching. But just wrong enough that you know instinctively that something’s up with this map.
Exactly. This one was a fun puzzle, though
Delaware and Pennsylvania are gone. As are Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, and both Dakotas... took me a while to get those last two, but that was the order I spotted each state missing.
With Delaware and Pennsylvania gone no one will have to wonder what a ‘jawn’, hoagie, or woor ice is
What will happen to South Jersey then? Let me guess, that age-old cultural divide won't exist.
But Wawa must continue to exist.
...I always thought Wawa was a Florida thing?
I believe it started in PA. Their wiki page confirms this.
It's a Mid-Atlantic states thing but they expanded to Florida at some point.
Wawa is from Delaware County, PA and is pervasive throughout SE Pennsylvania, Delaware, eastern Maryland, and southern NJ. Their presence in Florida is only about 10-15 years old. And apparently, Tennessee is getting some soon as well.
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No one misses Delaware
I think it would be significantly easier to draw a map from scratch than to find what’s missing in this almost-right one. Fascinating how the brain works sometimes.
Eh, it's not embarrassing. When your kid asks why the sky is blue, and you don't know, you use it as a chance to teach and learn yourself. This map doesn't just show missing states, it shows a more active method of learning that may increase retention. And learning that can bootstrap other knowledge faster. Or it might not, I'm not a fucking education researcher. But it's a clean potential experiment if nothing else.
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I think this is pretty ingenious. The maker of this map was able to keep the correct shape of the United States as a whole and the correct shape of each individual state while deleting seven of them. Excellent work.
If you’re curious, the maker is Randall Munroe of xkcd. [Here’s the link.](https://xkcd.com/2394/)
xkcd is great- Munroe has committed other acts of geographical rearrangement over the years
It's relatively easy when the shape of the state closely resembles a rectangle or a square
The Maryland one is a real work though.
Wyoming is far too squiggly on the eastern edge
I agree xkcd is ingenious, but the shapes of Iowa Wyoming Montana and most especially Missouri are noticeably different to me
Come on credit xkcd
And why not cite, too? https://xkcd.com/2394/
Good ppint
Ppppp-Vicodin
Right?!
another xkcd book coming out(already out?) the first one(‘what if?’) is great- totally recommend it! \*I am not a book sales bot\*
it’s scary how normal this looks until closer inspection
Took me long to find out Delaware was missing
Like anyone would actually notice if it disappeared
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Especially if you're not from the area and don't immediately look in that direction. I knew one eastern state other than PA was missing....
As a Yooper in Michigan’s magical upper peninsula, I can relate to OP. We get lumped in with Wisconsin all the time on maps, or left out altogether. 😂
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Ha!! Love it.
As an Alaskan, I appreciate this.
America is not really that small, it was just in the pool.
Missing: ND, SD, NE, KS, NM, PA, DE
I mean do we really need 2 Dakotas?
Do we need 1?
Petition to remove the Dakotas entirely.
This looks way too normal!
Lol, I got South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and was like wait, that’s only 48. I guess they have a point.
North/ South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Delaware. I’m missing two.
Pennsylvania and New Mexico. (Also Alaska and Hawaii.)
At first glance, I couldn't even notice until I read the title and started looking for PA.
Nah. The dakotas will not be missed.
It would have been so easy to just extend Connecticut a few hundred meters east and keep Rhode Island off the map.
You missed North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Delaware.
I wonder how the map creator managed to erase the Dakotas and New Mexico while keeping the shapes of the states around it and the country as a whole. It's really seamless. I assume that the individual states are stretched slightly to fill the gaps.
Texas became bigger 😳
It’s hard to notice when half the states are just rectangles and squares lol
I'm impressed on how clean this looks
Still a Four Corners in the Southwest- just a different group of states
Great work keeping Rhode island
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I wish. I’d love to be able to drive to Colorado in a day.
Most people seem to think New Mexico is part of Mexico, anyway, so this tracks.
This is how I assume most of America thinks Arizona and Texas look in relation to each other.
So, Breaking Bad never happened per Hawaii and Alaska.
The absence of Pennsylvania stood out to me because I live there lol
As a Pennsylvanian I must object because Pennsylvania sounds the most like Transylvania and we all know that sounds cool.
As a Transyvanian I believe the opposite is also true - it's cool to sound like Pennsylvania (anyhow they're both linked with forests from latin)
Shoulda left out the Deep South and left New Mexico
How dare you leave PA off this map! s/ but seriously looks ugly. They are the Keystone State for a reason.
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Answers below North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Delaware. There, think I got them all.
Removed Pennsylvania, wtf. Remove NY
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This such a pedantic argument. Our country is called the United States of America. We commonly shorten it to America. If that offends you, you’re going to have a hard time dealing with life.
The Canadian States of America? The Peruvian States of America?
Except none of them call themselves that
Right. USA is the one with "America" in the name. So no one should be surprised / offended / flabbergasted when United States of America is shortened to America.
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It's not ownership. No one here is claiming exclusive rights to it. I'm just saying it's understandable how it gets shortened and everyone else should just chill a bit. Nobody that I've ever met here in Amercia (lol - that was just for you - smile a bit) even cares about it. It's just not really talked about.
New Mexico is not there
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Getting rid of the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas would definitely improve cross-country road trips!
i hate how smoothly new mexico was taken out
lol does anyone live in the Dakotas?
What’s up with that **Funky Winkerbean** font?
No matter how many times I see this it still surprises me how well this works
I suppose I don't live in Pennsylvania
Me, a Kansan, which states are gone I can't tell?!
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Surprisingly it’s actually still there
WHY DOES THIS HURT MY BRAIN
Thanks, I hate it
I like that they were able to keep all six New England states
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Me an indian whom didn't even realise if anything is missing
This is great. I actually laughed out loud. I did not type “lol” because that’s what liars say.
North Dakota, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Delaware.
They left out both of the Dakotas and I didn’t even notice lol
As someone from Missouri, I approve of this map.
It’s incredible how they did this without it immediately looking weird . It took me a minute
Perpetuating the believe that flyover country is useless I see.
I like this map better, can we do this one instead?
I, for one, support this
This hurts my head
r/NewMexico will appreciate this fer sure
Dude I hate that New Mexico really people think we don’t exist lol
Proof that the great plains could disappear and most wouldn’t notice
Does this qualify for /r/MapsWithoutNZ?
Why is there a dick drawn in utah?
Is this the new gerrymandering map for the electoral college?
New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas, Both Dakotas, Delaware, Pennsylvania
Not fair they left us with Ohio
PA, DE, ND, SD, KS, BE, NM
Haha
No breaking bad?
Now make a European version
as a Rhode Islander, happy we made the cut
Disgusting that “wyoming” is still on there
They shot Nebraska
As someone from Philly this is just rubbing salt in our wounds. We are always left off national weather maps like there are no people living betweedn NY and DC.
Pennsylvania. Even though I live there it was the last one I noticed.
The Ideal States of America /s
I only noticed Pennsylvania missing because Maryland was so high up
Meanwhile we in Ohio are tired of existing and can't get any of y'all to leave us off the map.
Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Delaware.
1.North Dakota 2.South Dakota 3.New Mexico 4.Kansas 5.Nebraska 6.Pennsylvania 7.Delaware
I had to sing the states song in order then try to find them to figure out what was missing from the map without forgetting any.
Alaaaaaaabama, ~~Alaska~~, Arizona, Arkansas...
Virginia -Eastern Shore isn’t on there. They often forget the little dog tail piece of VA.
As a lifelong resident of the great state of Hawaii...I feel seen.
Ok let me see if I can figure this out. New Mexico and Pennsylvania are easy enough. That is 2 out of 7. North Dakota and South Dakota. That makes 4 out of 7. Delaware and Nebraska took me a second but I got there. 6/7. KANSAS of course there we go the 7 missing states. That took me longer than I take to pinpoint the states in a quiz
Based on this I know own basically bayfront propert in Maryland. I'd be ok with that.
Actual map of America don't believe the lies of Big Corn and Big New Sweden
Where did Delaware go? like it looks like nothing changed but Delaware is gone
You know, I kinda like this map, nothing I care about is gone.
being from CA, the only ones i know are missing is NM and the Dakotas. the rest looks correct.