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Test your knowledge of US geography with our quiz: can you name the cities farthest from their state's border? Find out the distance and population of each city!

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US Cities Farthest From Their State’s Border

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For each state, name the city farthest from that state’s border, be it a border with another state, international border, or sea/Great Lakes border. Distance and population of city shown. Distances are based on the city’s centroid to the closest border.

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dpm

2 years ago

I would make this limited to cities over a certain size (50k?). Otherwise there is no reason anyone would know the vast majority of these places.

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darin

2 years ago

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I thought about that but wanted this one to be a bit more of a challenge, otherwise you are just guessing larger cities in each state.

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