• curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      The spot near the border is called Toronto, everything else is Alaska junior. There is a small swamp somewhere called “Quebec”. Up north is something beautiful called the Aurora Rae Jepsen.

      How’d I do?

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      I’m gonna mix most of the interior ones up and totally forget that Montreal isn’t called Quebec.

      Now the hard mode is Mexico. They have enough states to be confusing and not enough presence in English internet to be memorable

    • ChaosCoati@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      East to west along the US border is Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba?, Alberta?, and BC. I think.

      Then there’s Nunavut. And maybe Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland? I’m realizing I have no idea how many provinces Canada has

      Edit: Looked it up and I definitely missed a few

          • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Interesting claim, let’s see:

            Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Argentina*, Armenia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada*, China, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Laos, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal*, Netherlands (country, not kingdom), North Korea, Pakistan*, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, The Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, Vanatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Taiwan (to some extent), all use Provinces.

            While Australia*, Austria*, Brazil*, Germany*, India*, Malaysia*, Mexico*, The Federated States of Micronesia*, Myanmar, Nigeria*, Palau, Somalia*, South Sudan*, Sudan*, The United States*, and Venezuela*, all use States.

            More interestingly, the asterisks denote federal systems of government (the rest are mostly unitary or regional). Almost every state system is also a federal system, while most provinces aren’t sovereign.

            Thus, Canada is the weird one out, basically using states while calling them less than states. As usual, they do everything backward. I’m so proud! 🇨🇦

            • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              TBH, if Canada wasn’t subject to harsher winters compared to what I can tolerate, I would move there myself.

            • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              Bah, you call that weird? In the UK we’re a country that contains four smaller countries!

  • DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    My rage at them getting New York wrong is only quelled in knowing that they pissed off many Pennsylvanians in the process.

  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    Don’t mind me, just doing my daily 10 (12? 14?) hour commute from western Washington, across the Cascades and the Rockies, to Seattle.

    • Pantsofmagic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      With the number of hockey players and associated rivalries churned out by that circle I question the OP’s Canadian credentials.

  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    111·
    2 months ago

    Oof. I’d rate Ohio as one of the more memorable/unique shapes like Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, etc

    • ChaosCoati@midwest.socialEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      I’m from the Midwest and when I travel overseas I just tell people I live “near Chicago” cuz it’s the only place between the Rockies and the Appalachians people reliably know.

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    come on now, wyoming is memorable for being so utterly fucking devoid of people that the entire state has a smaller population than luxembourg.

    • toynbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I remember Wyoming because it’s super square.

      That’s it, literally everything I know about it.

      edit: reinforced by a recent Map Men video.

  • pedz@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I think it depends where you live in Canada. I’m in Quebec so the bunch of states you circled in New England with “who lives here?” is rather easy for people living in QC or NB, as they are our immediate neighbours.

    Like, south of Montreal it’s New York, then east of the Richelieu river/Champlain lake it’s Vermont, then New Hampshire when you’re getting east of the Memphremagog lake or south of Sherbrooke, then there’s Maine between NB and QC. I dont know the rest but this part is easy.

  • mashbooq@infosec.pubEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    My heart died a little at seeing my beautiful state slandered by being labelled as Arkansas