Draw US States on a Terrain Map

Two ways to play

Draw a region: circle the state. Square states like Colorado and Wyoming are easy to place but hard to size; coastal states only need the land side, because the sea never counts. Draw a shared border: trace the line between two neighbours, from the Oklahoma panhandle against Texas to the river border between Kentucky and Indiana.

Terrain clues to look for

• The Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers carry long stretches of state border.
• The Continental Divide separates Montana and Idaho for most of their shared line.
• The Blue Ridge and the Appalachians run along the Tennessee–North Carolina and Virginia–West Virginia borders.
• Straight borders follow lines of latitude and longitude; the terrain will not help you there, only your memory of where the corner is.

Coverage and scoring

All 50 states have outline questions; the District of Columbia is shown on the map but not asked. Border questions exist for every pair of states that shares a land border of 40 km or more. Alaska and Hawaii are outline questions with their own viewports. Scores follow the site-wide scoring rules; state boundaries come from the US Census Bureau (see map data).

How do I draw the states from memory?

Start with a distinctive coast, river bend or corner, then close a ring around the land you think belongs to the state. In this US states border game, switch to Move to reposition the map without adding strokes. Submit to see missed and extra land, then try again: practice retries do not change your daily score.