Which US state has the most borders?
Other US Border Facts
Tennessee and Missouri border the most states, each with 8 neighbors. Hawaii is the only state without any straight borders.
The Answer:
It is a tie. Tennessee and Missouri each share borders with eight states. Here are the states with their neighbors, listed clockwise. Tennessee: Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri.
With 1,538 miles (2,475 km), Alaska shares the longest border. Pennsylvania with 42 miles (68 kilometers) shares the smallest length of the border.
What is the only US state that borders 1 state?
Maine is the only state to border exactly one other American state (New Hampshire).
Fourteen states (Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine) border Canada.
The border between the United States and Mexico stretches for nearly 2,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and touches the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.
What 2 states border 7 other states?
Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska lie to the west of Missouri. The state has been the birthplace of famous personalities like President Harry S Truman, Writer Mark Twain, singer, and songwriter Nelly, among others. At the second place are Colorado and Kentucky which share their borders with seven states.
What state is north of California’s border?
California is bordered by Oregon to the north. In the south, California shares an international border with Mexico. To the east, Nevada and Arizona share the California border. California meets the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Colorado shares a border with seven states: Utah, Arizona, New Mexico (the other three of the “Four Corners” states), Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming. This means that Colorado gets its unique flavor from several distinct regions: the Great Plains and the High Plains, the Rocky Mountain West, and the Southwest.
US States with Longest and Shortest Shared Borders
| miles | states | km |
|---|---|---|
| Arizona – Colorado | ||
| 1 | Delaware – New Jersey | 2 |
| 22 | Delaware – Pennsylvania | 36 |
| 34 | Missouri – Oklahoma | 55 |
How many states touch Canada?
There are 13 states that border Canada: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Alaska.
Which U.S. state borders another country but not any other U.S. state?
Maine is a state located in New England and situated in the United States.
How many states touch Tennessee?
Tennessee borders eight other US states, Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia in the south, Arkansas and Missouri along the Mississippi River in the west. The states’ nickname is “The Volunteer State.”
Minnesota is in the U.S. region known as the Upper Midwest in interior North America. The state shares a Lake Superior water border with Michigan and Wisconsin on the northeast; the remainder of the eastern border is with Wisconsin.