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States Of The South USA (With Hints) - Statistics

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Answer A little hint % Correct
Florida A Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon, called this area (in Spanish!) 'The Land of Flowers'.
100%
Georgia This was the last of the 13 original colonies to be established. It was named for the king, George II.
95%
Maryland This state is named after King Charles I's wife, Henrietta Maria.
95%
North Carolina You'd think this state was named after a woman, but the name actually relates to the Latin version of Charles (the First, that is). It is bordered on its south by the state mentioned below.
95%
South Carolina You'd think this state was named after a woman, but the name actually relates to the Latin version of Charles (the First, that is). It is bordered on its north by the state mentioned above.
95%
East South Central Alabama One group of the indigenous people living here referred to themselves as 'Alabaamaha'.
90%
West South Central Arkansas In the Algonquian language, the Quapaw people here were called 'Akansa'.
90%
Kentucky The Iroquoian name for this region meant 'on the prairie' or 'meadow' ('kenhtà:ke' in the Mohawk language).
90%
Tennessee Spanish explorer Juan Pardo recorded passing through an American Indian village called 'Tanasqui' in 1567.
90%
Texas In the Caddo language (now critically endangered, with only 25 native speakers), 'taysha' means 'friends'.
90%
Virginia I always believed this state was named after the unmarried Elizabeth I, but there's also the suggestion that it could have been after a Secotan chief called Wingina. But he resisted the European encroachment. So who knows...
90%
Louisiana This state was named after the French king who reigned from 1643 to 1715. Its suffix, 'ana', means 'relating to'.
86%
Mississippi European settlers named the state after the river on its western boundary: 'misi-ziibi' ('great river') in the Ojibwe language.
86%
Oklahoma The name of this state comes from a Choctaw phrase meaning 'red people': 'okla humma'.
86%
West Virginia This state lies to the west of the state mentioned two clues above.
86%
South Atlantic Delaware Thomas West, the 3rd Baron De La Warr, was the ruling governor nearby when Europeans named the large river here.
81%
Washington / District of Columbia This isn't a state and it's not in any state. It's the capital and in part named after the first president of the United States. The other part of its name is a feminine version of 'Columbus' (and how the US was poetically known).
71%
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