Walk the border of mainland USA - Name the States Going South from Washington State.

Anti-Clockwise trip around USA, Start Washington State - Finish Washington State. : Walk along Mexican & Canadian Borders and lakes: Approximate major direction of travel is given in Direction Hint W=West S=South E=East N=North etc.:
State abbreviations are allowed: Do Not forget the 'Delmarva Peninsular'
Any State with 2 separate coastlines must include both in their turn:
If stuck move on yellow box with cursor:
Coast and land borders of USA Mainland:
Quiz by Malbaby
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Last updated: February 20, 2019
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First submittedSeptember 24, 2017
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Hint
Answer
Washington - S
Oregon
S -
California
E -
Arizona
E -
New Mexico
SE -
Texas
E -
Louisiana
E -
Mississippi
E -
Alabama
E -
Florida
N -
Georgia
NE -
South Carolina
NE -
North Carolina
N -
Virginia
N -
Maryland
S -
Virginia
N -
Maryland
N -
Delaware
NE -
New Jersey
NE -
New York
NE -
Connecticut
Hint
Answer
E -
Rhode Island
E -
Massachusetts
N -
New Hampshire
NE -
Maine
W -
New Hampshire
W -
Vermont
W -
New York
SW -
Pennsylvania
SW -
Ohio
N -
Michigan
S -
Indiana
N W
Illinois
N -
Wisconsin
N -
Michigan
W -
Wisconsin
W -
Minnesota
W -
North Dakota
W -
Montana
W -
Idaho
W -
Washington
65 Comments
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Level 59
Sep 24, 2017
Splendid! Perhaps allow a bit more time for non-Americans, got just 16
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Level 70
Sep 24, 2017
Glad you liked it, I've added a little more time, It now works out at about 10 seconds a State.
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Level 27
Jan 11, 2018
Yay! I got exactly 0! (I’m aussie)
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Level 70
Jan 11, 2018
I'll have to make a round Australia one for you :o)
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Level 41
Aug 23, 2018
Make an Indian version for me.
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Level 70
Aug 23, 2018
OK 'ThomalNamo' ........here it is
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Level 41
Oct 5, 2018
Thanks Malbaby! Glad you made it.
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Level 47
Apr 18, 2019
pls make a deutsch Version too
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Level 72
Mar 14, 2020
One of the Netherlands would be rather pointless, then again, I guess it is more about the order than to see which subregions are landlocked. Both fun
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Level 78
Sep 25, 2017
100% :)
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Level 56
Sep 28, 2017
Nice quiz!
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Level 55
Oct 23, 2017
100% 4:18 left. Good quiz! But question: Why do you allow state abbreviations for all except Vermont? No, don't tell me, it's probably just a mistake.
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Level 70
Oct 23, 2017
It's probably just a mistake (OK now)
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Level 31
Oct 24, 2017
still doesn't work (VT)
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Level 70
Oct 27, 2017
Should be right now, .......... fingers crossed.
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Level 89
Aug 13, 2018
OK is actually Oklahoma.
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Level 70
Aug 13, 2018
someone +1
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Level 72
Jul 3, 2018
4:30 here, it wasn't as tricky as I had feared it might be, other than VA/MD it was pretty much straightforward.
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Level 89
Aug 13, 2018
Not following the border at Sault Ste. Marie made me head back along the shoreline. Shorter bridges than the Mackinac are obviously crossed from Virginia to Maryland or we'd wind up in West Virginia. The bridge from Delaware to New Jersey that just bypasses Pennsylvania to the south is a large suspension bridge as well. It's good this way, makes people learn.
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Level 85
Oct 28, 2017
The Great Lakes made that part a bit tricky. Nice quiz!
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Level 47
Mar 15, 2018
Has it really been spelled Connect-icut this whole time? Please add some type ins
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Level 70
Mar 15, 2018
Can't really think how you could misspell it, any ideas?
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Level 61
May 12, 2018
Since it’s pronounced “Connetticut” I think many people will omit the second C. As a Canadian, I didn’t learn the proper spelling until a few months ago when I had trouble in a quiz
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Level 70
May 13, 2018
OK, I've added a couple omitting the second C, may make life easier for some.
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Level 61
Mar 22, 2018
Just went over the US map to make sure you got everything right, and you did a great job! But being a Virginian, I have to say you should have included Virginia after Maryland, and then Maryland again after Virginia, so as to include Virginia's Eastern Shore (the bottom of the Delmarva Peninsula).
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Level 70
Mar 24, 2018
'MasterKenobi'....... you are quite correct of course. I had no idea that the Southern last 100 K of the Delmarva Peninsular was Virginia, so it would be a terrible walk around the coast there with all the bays etc. but you are right and it has been updated. I have mentioned the Delmarva just as a clue for jetpunkers like myself.
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Level 28
Mar 26, 2018
Some of the state abbreviations still aren't working.
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Level 70
Mar 26, 2018
Should be OK now, I added the Delmarva Peninsular and forgot the abbreviations...... now fixed.
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Level 74
Jun 21, 2018
Great fun! Had to think, but got 100% first time out. One like this for Europe or Latin America would be great!
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Level 70
Jun 21, 2018
Yes, here is one for the Americas ......here it is
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Level 70
Jun 21, 2018
And here is a Walk 'Eurasia' ....... not easy ..........here it is
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Level 63
Jun 22, 2018
Very fun!!! had to remember to cross back to MD
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Level 35
Aug 3, 2018
If you don't count the upper Delaware River as being coastal, then the order should be DE-NJ-DE-NJ-DE-NJ (link to: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5711235,-75.5875529,11.44z)
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Level 70
Aug 4, 2018
Doing a 'Walk' such as this is always tricky when it comes to rivers. If you follow the actual river to it's source you are asking for trouble (imagine a 'Walk round South America, when you arrive at the Amazon) ... On my 'Walks' I usually think of rivers as crossable not too far up river. this makes it possible to go Delaware - New Jersey then onward. Though I quite like the way that Delaware claims bits and pieces of the east bank of the Delaware river.
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Level 89
Dec 16, 2018
A walk not crossing water around the USA would cut off New England entirely as the Erie and Champlain Canals make it possible to circumnavigate New England and the Maritimes.
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Level 72
Mar 14, 2020
Would actually be a fun concept (perhaps with countries) if you start somewhere and treat every river as a wall and see where you end up.
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Level 42
Dec 15, 2018
I'm from Norway, I'm 13 years old and I got 40/40 :D
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Level 79
Mar 12, 2020
What's 'Fabolous'? 😁
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Level 72
Mar 14, 2020
Am is, you know, mornings are great
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Level 70
Mar 14, 2020
'sifhraven' + 1
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Level 66
Feb 20, 2019
If you go North of Indiana you end up in Michigan, it makes more sense to go West not North to get to Illinois.
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Level 70
Feb 20, 2019
You are walking the coast of Lake Michigan and you go round the south of the lake and start heading North West then North to Chicago. After Whiting you turn North, North West towards East Side, Illinois, then continue North along the West side of the Lake. To make it clearer I've changed the direction hint to NW.
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Level 31
Mar 22, 2019
Florida isn't east of Alabama, it's southeast of Alabama, I stumbled and said Georgia for east of Alabama is incorrect when really it is. Great quiz tho.
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Level 70
Mar 22, 2019
In this quiz you are presumed to be following the coast (as much as possible) Alabama has a short coastal area from about 10km after Pascagoula to about 20 km from Pensacola. If you travel East (give or take a few degrees) you will Enter Florida before Pensacola and travel then down the coast. Georgia is nowhere near the coast until you are travelling North along the Florida coast where you cross into Georgia about 35 km North of Jacksonville.
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Level 17
Mar 28, 2019
Am I insane cause what the heck is south of maryland that I haven't already answered??
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Level 17
Mar 28, 2019
FANTASTIC Virginia is on there twice, not West Virginia smh
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Level 79
Mar 12, 2020
This quiz is correct. If you follow the Atlantic border of the contiguous United States from south to north, you will go from Virginia northwards to Maryland; but due to Maryland's wacky shape you will have to go southwards again, where you meet an exclave of Virginia. Then you will go northwards again, still following the Atlantic coastline, where you meet Maryland again, before going further north to reach Delaware.
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Level 70
May 28, 2019
That was fun!! More of those please :-)
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Level 45
Nov 7, 2019
Nice quiz. I'm from the UK so a bit more time would be good. Maybe you could ask our US cousins to list the English counties moving anti-clockwise from Cornwall and see how far they get...:).1. Cornwall. 2. Give up...
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Level 70
Nov 7, 2019
Thanks 'Riversdale', Not just 'US cousins' ......... Here in Australia or even the majority of English people would have difficulty naming and placing the English counties........ I know I do :o)
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Level 72
Mar 14, 2020
After a year I still dont know all the capitals, but did the uk counties last week and got them 2nd time around, and pretty sure more than 95% has stick (stuck? Sticked? Sticken, staccato? Haha) I have never learned something so fast. I only knew Cornwall and the rough area of london (still got the wrong one.. the first time..) beforehand.

I guess a lot of it has to do with there was a map with it, and some nice distinctice shapes. It wasnt even learning, more assimilating, I simply just remembered them instantly haha. Btw this has nothing to do with how easy or not uk counties are to learn, or how well or not I am at learning, usually my memory fails me. But on some rare occasions I seem to be superabsorbant haha

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Level 43
Nov 29, 2019
Wow, that was fun! You should make some more, like the countries of Africa or South America.
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Level 70
Nov 29, 2019
Thanks 'Marvel'.......... already have a couple of others similar ...... Just enter "Mals walk" in the 'Search box' and you will see some such as 'Africa'.......' The Americas' etc.
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Level 40
Jan 15, 2020
Double 'p' in Mississippi got me.
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Level 79
Mar 12, 2020
Yeah, maybe the standard JetPunk type-ins should be accepted, such as 'Misisipi'.
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Level 72
Mar 14, 2020
I cant believe more than half didnt get washington! Even if you don't know any of the others, by using logic thst is one evreryone should get.

(but I guess eventhough I think the average jetpunker is pretty smart, their reading ability, mainly for things at the top of the screen ;) have been proven to not always be that great)

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Level 65
Apr 24, 2020
What about making a quiz combining this one and the african one?
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Level 68
Apr 12, 2021
I got all 60.
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Level 70
Apr 13, 2021
Not an easy quiz, well done.
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Level 60
Jun 20, 2021
I only got first to, because i thought it was first two letters, and their abbreviations are the first two letters
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Level 81
Aug 29, 2021
I love your walking tours! Nominated.
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Level 70
Aug 29, 2021
Thanks!
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Level 37
Jun 24, 2022
Hard... Didn't get them all but it was a really good quiz! Nominated!
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Level 70
Jun 26, 2022
Thanks ..... it is a pretty tough challenge.
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Level 61
Sep 3, 2023
Nominated