Lived there for 18 1/2 years and it surprised me that California is wide. If you take the distance from furthest east to furthest west them oh, it is wide, a lot of that is sea though, if you draw it as a rectangle.
Of course forgot the Florida panhandle, duh.
Virginia surprised me too. And I forgot that Idaho goes around the corner of Montana so it then impinges on Wyoming's width.
I enjoy driving through Nebraska. What traumatized me was driving through southern Kansas in the 1960s in a car with no a/c. We were either passing an oil well and smelling the fumes, passing a feed lot with hundreds of cows who added to the aroma, or else we were driving endlessly with nothing in sight but an occasional dusty small town. Thank goodness I-70 was completed. Driving through northern Kansas was better. At least there were some hills and trees to break the monotony. (Apologies to Kansans, but I'm just not a flatland kind of girl.)
Hawaii stretches 1,523 miles from the island of Niihau to the island of Hawaii. However, the footnote above specifies continuous span across the same land mass. Similarly, Alaska would span 2,400-2,700 miles (depending on data source) if the Aleutians were included.
I read the quiz title as "Top 10 Wildest U.S. States East to West", so I clicked it out of curiosity about how they'd measure that and why it would be ordered east to west...
Of course forgot the Florida panhandle, duh.
Virginia surprised me too. And I forgot that Idaho goes around the corner of Montana so it then impinges on Wyoming's width.
Very interesting angle on the States' geography.