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Top 10 Widest U.S. States East to West

Can you name the states that have the longest maximum east/west spans?
Continuous spans on the same land mass
Doesn't have to be a straight line
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Last updated: September 13, 2019
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First submittedSeptember 10, 2019
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miles
state
km
1322
Alaska
2128
813
Texas
1309
571
Montana
919
565
California
909
486
Tennessee
782
miles
state
km
483
North Carolina
777
482
Oklahoma
776
460
Florida
741
459
Nebraska
739
434
Virginia
698
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Level 62
Sep 13, 2019
nice quiz
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Level 59
Nov 28, 2019
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.

Very interesting angle on the States' geography.

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Level 75
Jan 13, 2020
I didn't even try typing it in. I didn't realize the curve made it so wide.
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Level 80
Jan 13, 2020
Just typing in Nebraska gives me flashbacks of the last time I had to drive those 450+ miles through there. I'm still traumatized!
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Level 75
Jan 13, 2020
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.)
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Level 59
Nov 26, 2020
Funny how Western Australia South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Northern Territory and Victoria easily making this list (most in top 5).
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Level 40
Jan 14, 2024
Bro that’s a whole other topic but it works out strangely bro😂
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Level 78
Jan 11, 2021
Great quiz - how about a West to East version?
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Level 41
Feb 9, 2021
I'm confused on how Montana didn't make the list
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Level 77
Aug 18, 2021
um...it's 3rd
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Level 59
Dec 17, 2022
im confused on how you didnt see montana on the list
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Level 71
Mar 15, 2021
Wow, no Kentucky? How far off this list is it? Seems to be about the same as Virginia to me.
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Level 59
Jan 11, 2024
Looks like its about 10 miles too short
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Level 48
May 19, 2021
too euro centric. }:(
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Level 28
Sep 3, 2021
I typed kentucky at the last second XDD
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Level 26
Sep 3, 2021
but kentucky isnt on this-
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Level 48
Jan 11, 2024
probably laughing at his mistake
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Level 60
Jan 15, 2024
Maybe this person is in the same parallel universe as lildnth43.
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Level 71
Sep 3, 2021
How wide is Hawaii? Do the Midway islands count?
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Level 89
Sep 3, 2021
Not wide enough. And the MIdway Islands aren't part of Hawaii.
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Level 92
Sep 3, 2021
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.
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Level 75
Sep 5, 2021
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...
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Level 49
Jan 11, 2024
I forgot about Florida's panhandle
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Level 35
Jan 11, 2024
Go to Nebraska