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Test your knowledge of US State centroids with this interactive quiz. Can you correctly identify the centroid location of each state?

Do abbreviations or alternate spellings count?

Yes. Most quizzes allow common abbreviations, alternate spellings, and short forms. Try typing just the first few letters — if it matches, it will autofill.

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US State Centroid Locator Streak

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Double-click on the map as close as possible to each US state’s geographic center (centroid) that shows up on the right. The closer you click, the more points you get (max 100). You must get at least 85 points to move on to the next state, otherwise the quiz ends. Object is most states completed, not points.

Geographic centers are based on the modern definition used by the USGS, which is “the center of gravity of the surface, or that point on which the surface of the area would balance if it were a plane of uniform thickness…derived by minimizing the sum of squared great circle distances from all points of land in a state (including islands, but not coastal waters.”

Double-click where the centroid is.

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