Besides Alaska, which state is farthest north?
Many people have a hard time with this one because most of the US maps
we see are projected. Projections are formal ways to view the surface of
the earth on a flat sheet of paper, but in order to do this they must distort
properties of the surface. Most US maps do not preserve the property that
two locations exactly level with one another on the paper should be at
the same latitude. Here's an example Albers Equal Area projection US
map. Points lying along each curved line of latitude you see on the
map are equally far north..
Here's a map
which makes the answer to this trivia question pretty apparent by showing
the US in latitude-longitude coordinates. It's from a nice page
about map projections from a course at the University of Texas.
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