xkcd #2868: Label the States
Alt text: Even with a blank map, a lot of people can only name 45-50 of the 64 states.
JollyG, Tennessee and Elevenessee
SgtAStrawberry, Ninessee pronounced Nanci
Seraph, 
NW, NE, SW, & SE Colorado
Infynis, 
I don’t know if that’s West Ohio or East Indiana, but either way, it is a crime against nature
HopingForBetter, We're always as war with East
AsiaIndiana.
robotopera, An Ohio without Columbus is an Ohio I want to be a part of.
Trainguyrom, A couple of my friends had a go at this one:
https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/8bc6537e-f453-40bd-92ef-794e1572c139.png
Some notable quotes:
“Wrong. It goes washingyon, oregon, gravity falls, hotel california”
“pennywise AND ohio, rough spot for maine”
“New Hampsire is not a state. I haven’t heard shit from someone in New Hampshire”
merc, What’s interesting are the states you can’t modify too much or it gives away the game.
Texas is a key example, people are pretty familiar with that shape, even many non-Americans will recognize it. Florida and California are also pretty well known. Also, many people have a rough idea of NY State, though you could probably tweak the north and west borders a bit and nobody would notice too much.
The ones it’s easy to fiddle with are the rectangular ones in the mid-west. I think a lot of people only know them starting from another reference point, like “north of Texas” or “east of Nevada”.
Doomsider, My favorite is asking people what the 51st state is, Hawaii or Alaska?
criticon, How many states are in New Mexico?
callyral, 
Texas, California, Colorado, Wyoming, Colorado again-… wait a minute
Perhapsjustsniffit, Canadian here, from the outside it seems to just be 3 states. Almost crazy, crazy and don’t come here if you want to exist.
ornery_chemist, I’m just tickled that this map shows MN’s northwest angle as the (pseudo)exclave that it is.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown, I’ve got: Neo Hampshire, Middle Carolina, Outdianna, Tennetucky, Rkansas, Northwest Dakota, West South Dakota, Souther Dakota, The Real South Dakota, Coloradon’t, Becausoming, Ariz Oh No!, Udaho & Trail
TheGreenGolem,
EchoCranium, North and South Dakota now have a Middle Dakota buffer zone.
lessthanluigi, Ah yes, Washington, Oregon, Orecan’t, and California!
littlebluespark, 
Even Washington is mostly “S Seattle”. C’mon Cascadia! Fuck these Orecan’t posers, let’s go hang with Hawaii. 🤙🏼
HububBub, East Maine is so much better than West Maine.
pixeltree, 
Is that west maine? I thought it was old hampshire
slazer2au, The chef is intact but is holding 2 plates now.
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