U.S. States Entirely Between Canada and Mexico

Can you guess the U.S. states which are entirely south of Canada's southernmost point and entirely north of Mexico's northernmost point?
Five wrong guesses ends the quiz
The states don't have to be directly north or south of Mexico/Canada, longitude isn't a factor.
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Last updated: May 20, 2026
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First submittedMarch 3, 2026
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41 Comments
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Level 83
May 20, 2026
I have rewritten the description slightly (changes pending) and added a caveat, I apologize if I came off as rude in some of my comments, I didn't realize people would misinterpret it to mean directly north or south, regardless if these changes still leave people confused I'm not sure what to do without writing a very long and clunky description, so I'll just have to leave this be.
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Level 84
Mar 3, 2026
Nice! Good level of unintuitiveness, Nevada and Utah missing feels so weird haha
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Level ∞
Mar 12, 2026
Yeah. It does feel weird. Canada has a point that is south of the northernmost parts of those states. California too.
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Level 83
Mar 12, 2026
Fun fact California is the only state to fail both of these criteria, it is both more south than Mexico at points and more North than Canada at points.
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Level 84
Mar 12, 2026
Yeah I guess I hadn't considered California being level with Canada too bc borders are pretty much always gonna eliminate you from things like this (although ig US/Canada couldve been a rare exception with the massive 49th parallel border)
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Level 47
Mar 12, 2026
Rhode Island is neither a whammy nor a correct answer.
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Level 83
Mar 12, 2026
It should be a whammy, pending approval!
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Level 72
Mar 12, 2026
Hey nice feature!

Also uh West Virginia didn't work.

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Level 83
Mar 12, 2026
Works fine for me
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Level 84
Mar 12, 2026
I always check things like this again bc normally it was just psychosis or I typed it wrong or smtn lol
+4
Level 88
Mar 12, 2026
Love this quiz. Great idea.
+4
Level 83
Mar 12, 2026
I would love to say I came up with it but I found it off an Instagram reel lol

Seems to have trended on facebook as an interesting map.

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Level 69
Mar 12, 2026
Thank you for making me question reality. Super fun though!
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Level 66
Mar 12, 2026
Harder than I thought lol.
+3
Level 94
Mar 12, 2026
Wonderful idea for a quiz!
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Level 72
Mar 16, 2026
0/13 I just don't get the question 🤷‍♂️
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Level 83
Mar 16, 2026
I mean the description makes it pretty clear.

US states that are more north than Mexico's north most point and more south than Canada's south most point.

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Level 72
Mar 19, 2026
No it doesn't.
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Level 76
May 20, 2026
Could you BE more arrogant. Or maybe you could have just further explained with an example.
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Level 68
May 20, 2026
This description was actually clearer to me. I was confused and really bombed this! It's a very clever quiz, but if you could re-write the description a little, it would be helpful to those of us who take the quiz before the coffee kicks in! :)
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Level 90
Mar 17, 2026
If you were to draw two (parallel) lines of latitude through:

• 41.68147°, the southernmost point of Canada in the Peelee Islands; and

• 32.78169°, the northernmost point of Mexico at Los Algodones,

Then what states would lie entirely between those two lines, without overlapping either of them?

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Level 83
May 20, 2026
This explanation could really help the description. For a good minute, I also thought we were looking for states where going north or south hits the Canadian or Mexican border.
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Level 69
Apr 8, 2026
This quiz also doesn't make sense to me. New Jersey is not between Canada and Mexico. No part of Mexico is South of New Jersey.
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Level 83
Apr 9, 2026
Yeah I can't help you there, where do you think NJ is!?
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Level 67
May 20, 2026
I'm pretty sure he means it isn't "directly" south of New Jersey (although the description clearly states that isn't a factor).
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Level 76
May 20, 2026
Man you ARE arrogant. I'd advise you to stay away from the teaching profession.
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Level 65
May 20, 2026
All parts of Mexico are south of New Jersey...

The description said longitude isn't a factor.

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Level 83
May 20, 2026
To be fair that comment was made before that caveat was added
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Level 72
Mar 19, 2026
Oh, I was thinking lines longitude because some states are too east or west to be directly north of Mexico.
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Level 79
Mar 21, 2026
That's what I did and I ended up getting just 1 correct answer haha
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Level 80
May 20, 2026
There are six states in this quiz that are north of Mexico, south of Canada, and have part of their territory that overlaps longitudinally with Mexico.
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Level 76
Apr 8, 2026
Same!
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Level 71
Apr 2, 2026
I also answered the quiz question based on longitude. The quiz instructions should make it clear that the quiz relates to latitude. For example, “which states are latitudinally entirely south of Canada and entirely north of Mexico”.
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Level 57
May 20, 2026
Nice quiz with some suprising answers (Utah and Nevada).
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Level 64
May 20, 2026
based on the instruction i have no clue what states u are looking for... all states bar hawaii and alaska are south of canada and north of mexico...
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Level 72
May 20, 2026
this wasnt on the fp yet? ouch
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Level 23
May 20, 2026
Title is misleading.

I thought that the states have to be south of Canada and north of Mexico just like Utah, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico or Oregon.

I didn't realized that all of territory of the state have to be south of Canada and north of Mexico.

And because of that I didn't get anything right and I was really confused why these states that I mentioned aren't working.

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Level 78
May 20, 2026
Pelee Island is such a big pain.
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Level 69
May 20, 2026
Great quiz, instructions still need work.

Many states are "between" Canada and Mexico in the sense that if you go north from any point in the state you will reach Canada, and if you go south you will reach Mexico--for example, Iowa--yet they do not meet the ambiguous betweenness criteria of the quiz. The current instructions don't cover this case well: Iowa is "entirely south" of Canada because every point in Iowa is south of Canada; it's just not the case that Canada is entirely north of Iowa.

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Level 87
May 20, 2026
Unexpectedly difficult, had to pull out my atlas to check wtf is going on
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Level 75
May 21, 2026
Me, too. I expected to win, and, yeah, I died quickly.