https://www.disruptivegeo.com/2015/08/the-flatness-of-us-states/
Der am wenigsten flache westliche Bundesstaat Wyoming.
Wisconsin ist der am wenigsten flache Bundesstaat des Mittleren Westens.
Florida ist der flachste US-Bundesstaat.
Verwendung von US-Volkszählungsregionen als Grenzen.
Von CatNapDad
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Wow
A hill in Florida is like 20 feet
NC doesn’t seem right, the west is very mountainous
This is a good metric. People call states like Kansas flat, but they’re not! It’s mostly mildly rolling hills!
I drive across Illinois a lot. I am amazed how literally flat it is. There are times you can look in all directions and not see a single hill.
Also it’s amazing how it changes almost as soon as you get in Wisconsin.
How about Hawaii and Alaska?
I assume Hawaii is the least flat?
As someone who has spent countless hours looking at all of these places on geoguessr, it’s not at all surprising that Illinois is flatter than Iowa or Minnesota flatter than Kansas. Some of our narratives about the flattest places are just wrong.
PA at 45 was kinda shocking then I realized how few areas her are truly flat. Everything is on some sort of hill.
So this is only the lower 48, and yet vermont is #49?
This is bonkers. North Carolina shouldn’t be flattering than anything in the Midwest.
I’m not buying that South Carolina is flatter than Delaware.
New England’s terrain is significantly more rugged than I expected
Champlain Valley in VT is quite flat so it goes to show how „can’t get there from here“ the rest of the state is
So in comparison to Wisconsin, the insult nickname of Flatlanders for people from Illinois is true – even if Illinois is the 3rd flattest.
So no Alaska or Hawaii and Washington DC is #35 somehow??
That scale makes me want to scream.
I’m really surprised about Rhode Island. I feel like the highest spot there is 100 feet above sea level.
Cheers to the winner Vermont!
Why aren’t the Great Lakes counted as being flat territory for the states claimed?
Utah has mountains but the rest is flat as hell.
Kind of a dumb metric. Pennsylvania being less flat than Idaho. Yes the southern portion of Idaho is flat, but half the state is literally unlivable due to the topography. A rolling hill while technically not flat is flat enough to build a town on. A mountain range is not.
CO and WY being 15 apart is wild to me
Pretty fucking boring here. An interstate is the highest point in Pinellas County. A few hills in the middle of the state, and along the Alabama border basically.
Crazy to see Connecticut at 4226, I didn’t realize it was so mountainous
Arkansas and Oklahoma make no sense to me. Arkansas is like driving in Vermont. It’s like all turns and mountains. At least the north half. And Oklahoma is like way more flatter than Arkansas or Missouri. I think Illinois and missuouri are spot on. Arkansas and Oklahoma I don’t understand.
Anyone else real excited by this?
Contrast with “ruggedness”, which I think is more often talked about.
Ruggedness measures change in elevation between points ~1 km apart, so places like Iowa are extremely low in ruggedness because it has gentle hills and difference between the lowest and highest point in the whole state is like 1000 ft.
This apparently ranks the percent of a state that is flat as a pancake.
Interestingly, Florida is #1 in both measures.
How about Greenland, that will be a state soon.
Wow. Oklahoma being near the middle surprised me.
Hawaii 29 and Alaska 50?
I was gonna call in question the entire validity of this map before I remembered majority of NC is costal plain
A good read.
My initial impression was the quip about „Kansas is flatter than a pancake“, why isn’t it #1. But that’s the first thing the article addresses.
If Northern Indiana were it’s own state, it would be -1
Georgia (16) is flatter than Nebraska (20)? That seems odd.
Looking at the source maps, there’s what I think is a significantly problem with how he categorizes some of the areas in the west, particularly flat valleys in CA, NV, UT, and AZ. There are areas of flatness, however they are inevitably within view of mountains, at some points quite tall ones, in virtually every direction. So it doesn’t feel flat in the same way that Iowa feels flat. I think the methodology needs some tweaking.
I dunno how „Flatter than Florida“ aint a thing, it’s more alliterative than „Flatter than Kansas.“
I here-by rule „Flatter than Florida“ is the new saying!
Ha, I’ve primarily lived in 43, 46, and 49. I like mountains!
How.. how is Oklahoma ranked so low? I mean there are a few hills in the SE part of the state, but otherwise it’s pretty damned flat.