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by antcas 8y ago
1 Florida
2 Illinois
3 North Dakota
4 Louisiana
5 Minnesota
6 Delaware
7 Kansas
8 Texas
9 Nevada
10 Indiana
11 South Dakota
12 Michigan
13 New Mexico
14 Arizona
15 South Carolina
16 Oklahoma
17 New Jersey
18 Iowa
19 Nebraska
20 Ohio
21 Arkansas
22 Mississippi
23 Utah
24 California
25 Colorado
26 North Carolina
27 Rhode Island
28 Maryland
29 Wisconsin
30 Georgia
31 Missouri
32 Idaho
33 Wyoming
34 Montana
35 Oregon
36 Maine
37 Alabama
38 District of Columbia
39 New York
40 Massachusetts
41 Washington
42 Virginia
43 Tennessee
44 Connecticut
45 Vermont
46 New Hampshire
47 Kentucky
48 Pennsylvania
49 West Virginia
- antcas 8y agoI guess we'll never know how flat Alaska or Hawaii are, though I'd guess not very flat at all. I'm most surprised how many states are considered flatter by this paper than Colorado!
- mindcrime 8y agoYeah, the methodology they used generated a few somewhat surprising results. I suspect there are other reasonable ways of defining "flatness" that would yield markedly a markedly different ranking for some states.
- eesmith 8y ago"Eastern Colorado is just as flat as Kansas, both being in the High Plains Physiographic Section" (quoting the paper) That's about 1/3 the state, so it brings down the average.
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- AngryData 8y agoMichigan would probably be much lower but all the dips are full of water and turn into swamps and lakes which are excluded.